If I had to converse with any woman for an hour, I would want her to be Norma Jeane Mortenson. As a world renown actress, Norma had many redeeming qualities that were always overlooked: working in the airplane factories during World War II, reading psychology and physiology books to improve her acting, and standing up to male chauvinism and racism in Hollywood. However, with the type of roles she was given in films, she herself was personified as simply a sex symbol, and agencies forced her to publicly resort to this persona. She felt she had to compromise her reputation/integrity/identity to stay in the business, and she felt powerless against the big names in multimedia companies who could’ve easily cut her off. She had to say yes to the
