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Blake Lively Jokes That She's Only in Love With Ryan Reynolds "Most of the Time"
![On how the increase of female-produced projects is increasing equality in Hollywood: "I think it helps a lot. Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself. That said, I know a lot of great men — directors, producers, studio heads — looking to tell stories about women, some because they're drawn to those stories, some because they're husbands or fathers and want to see the women in their life represented more accurately, and some just because they look at the numbers. They see, 'Wonder Woman has replaced religion in America. We should probably invest in female summer movies.'"
On playing complicated women: "I think that onscreen — at least in the mainstream — complicated women are black-and-white. They're villains, or they're heroic. And that's just not real life. We all have a lightness, and we all have darkness, and we all have plenty of shades in between."
On how the election changed her: "It made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas — class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems [before]. You know, I do a lot of work against sex trafficking: There are hundreds of thousands of missing-children reports in the United States each year; some of those children are sex-trafficked. But that's not reported. You see [stories about] only the wealthy, middle-class white girls who've been kidnapped. There are people missing all the time, and because they're minorities, because they come from impoverished neighborhoods, they don't make the news. That is so devastating."
On using certain words around her daughters: "But with my husband, I'm lucky to have someone who is so conscious. My husband was like, 'Why do I always say he?' And I said, 'That's what we're taught.' So he'll pick up, like a caterpillar, and instead of saying, 'What's his name?' he'll say, 'What's her name?' Or we've joked that my daughter is bossy. But my husband said, 'I don't ever want to use that word again. You've never heard a man called bossy.' There would never be any negative connotation for a man being a boss, so to add a negative connotation on a woman being bossy? It's belittling. And it doesn't encourage them to be a boss. So do I know how to be the best parent for a daughter? No, I have no idea. All I can do is share what I'm thinking — and learn from others."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On how the increase of female-produced projects is increasing equality in Hollywood: \"I think it helps a lot. Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself. That said, I know a lot of great men — directors, producers, studio heads — looking to tell stories about women, some because they're drawn to those stories, some because they're husbands or fathers and want to see the women in their life represented more accurately, and some just because they look at the numbers. They see, 'Wonder Woman has replaced religion in America. We should probably invest in female summer movies.'\"
On playing complicated women: \"I think that onscreen — at least in the mainstream — complicated women are black-and-white. They're villains, or they're heroic. And that's just not real life. We all have a lightness, and we all have darkness, and we all have plenty of shades in between.\"
On how the election changed her: \"It made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas — class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems [before]. You know, I do a lot of work against sex trafficking: There are hundreds of thousands of missing-children reports in the United States each year; some of those children are sex-trafficked. But that's not reported. You see [stories about] only the wealthy, middle-class white girls who've been kidnapped. There are people missing all the time, and because they're minorities, because they come from impoverished neighborhoods, they don't make the news. That is so devastating.\"
On using certain words around her daughters: \"But with my husband, I'm lucky to have someone who is so conscious. My husband was like, 'Why do I always say he?' And I said, 'That's what we're taught.' So he'll pick up, like a caterpillar, and instead of saying, 'What's his name?' he'll say, 'What's her name?' Or we've joked that my daughter is bossy. But my husband said, 'I don't ever want to use that word again. You've never heard a man called bossy.' There would never be any negative connotation for a man being a boss, so to add a negative connotation on a woman being bossy? It's belittling. And it doesn't encourage them to be a boss. So do I know how to be the best parent for a daughter? No, I have no idea. All I can do is share what I'm thinking — and learn from others.\"")
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