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The Golden Globe may be a vanity celebration with its red carpets show, paparazzi and so on.
At the same time it is unquestionable the media power it has. This moment is literally under the spotlight and people are watching it from many places. Some stars, writers and directors take this opportunity to call attention or dedicate their awards to social causes which is nice but insufficient, right?
I would like to bring up the speech of Maggie Gyllenhall (who received the award for Best Actress in TV series) that really should stand out from the others since it is honest enough to talk about itself:
"I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately," "[but] what I see actually is women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not; sometimes sexy, sometimes not, sometimes honorable, sometimes not. What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what's turning me on."
You may watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVE2KrHuECA
What Maggie said is a very simple statement. Of course female characters should be as complicated as the male ones - and she said it in a room full of people with the power to make this change. She also said it to the audience of these shows at the primest time possible.
I quote Sophie Kleeman when she writes "in a society that ignores less-than-gorgeous women, stigmatizes angry women and overlooks women who've accomplished anything less than perfection, asserting the worth and value of all women is crucial. Women with flaws aren't failures - they're human."