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PEREIRA & O'DELL, San Francisco / IGNITE / 2018
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We open on a title card: “78 percent of all elected officials in the U.S. are men. The following is based on one of their opinions.”
We cut to a woman sitting in a doctor’s examination room, wearing a hospital gown. A male doctor enters and tells her she wasn’t raped. When she presses him, insisting she was, he tells her she couldn’t have been, because if it’s a “legitimate rape,” the female body can’t get pregnant, and she’s pregnant. The woman is shocked to find out she’s pregnant. The doctor congratulates her and leaves.
We cut to a real politician’s quote, which is quoted verbatim in the film, then conclude with a sobering reminder: Politicians have the power to turn their opinions into reality, and if you don’t run for office or vote, people like him could end up writing the rules.
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In the United States, women make up 51 percent of the population but only hold 22 percent of elected positions.
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