The perceived glass ceiling I am dying to see pushed through is female portrayal & opportunity in television and film, but most painfully, in the blockbuster animated films directed at kids. I almost can't watch them anymore, because I start counting the female voices and calculating the ratio…and it is just plain sad.

Just try watching Monsters Inc. and count the characters that are female throughout the entire film. You can, there are that few of them. Then take a good look at those archetypes. If you were a little girl wanting to role play, which one would you choose? The baby waiting to be saved? The secretary begging for another date after being stood up? Who said monsters were all male?

It seems like all characters are male unless there is some special reason not to be, and that is signaled to the audience with enlarged lips and eyelashes. I'd like the number of female characters to be so big, that I couldn't write about what they represent–because they would simply represent the diverse and colorful female half of the population.