Award winning Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock is tired of how women are portrayed in the media and she spoke up about it in a new interview while promoting her latest movie Minions.
“I feel like it’s become open hunting season in how women are attacked and it’s not because of who we are as people, it’s because of how we look or our age,” Bullock told E!.
“I’m shocked — and maybe I was just naïve, but I’m embarrassed by it.” The actress also brought up her son, Louis, and how this harmful portrayal of women could affect him. “My son is getting ready to grow up in this world and I’m trying to raise a good man who values and appreciates women, and here we have this attack on women in the media that I don’t see a stop happening.”
“Little girls are having the hardest time with bullying and the Internet—somebody with a very large hand and big voice needs to put a stop to it.”
Bullock joins women like Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Patricia Arquette and Ashley Judd who have all brought up the modern-day sexism women face, particularly in Hollywood. But Bullock says that until things improve, the one thing women can rely on is finding support in each other.
“You’d be surprised at the love that you have in our crazy industry,” Bullock said. “The women have bonded together and have sort of become this tribe of trying to take care of each other and be there for each other in a way, because the minute you step out it’s an onslaught.”
She said the reason she accepted People’s offer to be their Most Beautiful issue’s cover girl, is so that she could talk about the women she finds beautiful, “which are these women who rise above and take care of business and do wonderful things.”
Sandra ended the conversation with a call to action.
“We need to stop,” she said. “We are harming girls and women in a way, at a speed that it’s scaring me. It’s really scaring me, so I would love for someone to help put a stop to this.”