These real Hollywood scripts show how superficially female characters are written

Much has been said about the lack of substantial roles for women in Hollywood films — female characters are disproportionately underrepresented and hypersexualized, a 2013 study found. The issue goes far beyond who is directing the movie, too: A character is, after all, first conceived in a script. That's where Ross Putnam comes in.

Putnam is a producer who has created a Twitter account to highlight the fact that women are written as sexual objects right from the start. "These are intros for female leads in actual scripts I read. Names changed to JANE, otherwise verbatim... Apologies if I quote your work," Putnam writes in his bio.

Here is a look at some of the most telling of the bunch. Jeva Lange

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