WhoHaha

Elizabeth Banks, one of my favorite actresses and most loved humans, recently created a website and a campaign titled WhoHaha. The goal of this campaign is to highlight the ”who behind the haha.” This whole thing is all about women and aimed at women. Elizabeth, who is an actress that does a whole lot of comedy, feels that there is a huge divide between who gets the comedic roles in Hollywood. Even though there has been an influx in successful female actresses in comedies, she’s right when she says that most of these roles go to male actors. I do believe that there is a gender divide in Hollywood and it is greatly in favor of males. I think it’s wonderful that Liz has come up with this idea to create a gathering point for women and to give them a platform to show just how funny women can be.

If it wasn’t for comedy, I might not have found Liz in the first place. I actually discovered her wonderful acting and comedic talents after having seen her as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games. For a movie with a very dark subject matter and gritty atmosphere, she served as the comic relief and did a wonderful job in doing this. Outside of serving as the comic relief in a dark dystopia for four movies, she’s done many other funny movies like The Lego Movie and the Pitch Perfect movies. Pitch Perfect was a huge deal for Miss Banks. Not only did she have a role in both acting in the film and writing it, she actually moved to the director’s chair by the second movie.

She acts, she writes, she produces, she directs, and does all of this while being extremely funny. I think a lot of women can be inspired by Elizabeth Banks and should be. She shows that you can be happily married, a mother, a successful business woman, and can make an impact on those around you in a very positive way. I hope that with WhoHaha, the overwhelming movement to support women and feminism, and simply the push for equality between genders, that women will get the credit they deserve. Hollywood and everywhere else needs a huge reality check when it comes to seeing that both men and women should be seen as equals and that one gender should not be privileged over the other just because of old social standards.