A Female's View of the Oscars

I think you'll find this worth a look (if you're not all Oscared out).

Last night, knowing that I wouldn't be hearing a women's voice cracking jokes, introducing presenters, and narrating film montages, I decide to keep an eye and ear out for fabulous feminist moments – speeches and comments and tributes that put women first, that showcased women in film as more than arm candy, Oscar presenters or gracious white smiles in the sea of faces at the Kodak Theatre. Surely, in spite of what I've seen in US Weekly and E!, female celebrities would bring more to American's most prestigious film award show than fancy dresses and borrowed bling.

And they did! Sure, this year's slick, trimmed-down ceremony was a bit on the bland side (no hysterics, dramatics, polemics, or swans), but fortunately, it was also full of female-friendly moments.

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