--- title: Headless Women of Hollywood Tumblr Addresses Women in Media description: This project brings attention to the still standard practice of fragmenting, fetishizing and dehumanizing the images of women we see. canonical: https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/ author: Maggie Parker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-02T16:46:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:22.750Z og:title: This Tumblr Tracks Objectified Women in TV and Movie Posters og:description: 'The Headless Women of Hollywood' makes a very heady point og:url: https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9272679a2921003d/69889169f887dc998fe95af2/women-hollywood-media-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Old fashioned movie camera og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Tumblr Tracks Objectified Women in TV and Movie Posters twitter:description: 'The Headless Women of Hollywood' makes a very heady point twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9272679a2921003d/69889169f887dc998fe95af2/women-hollywood-media-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Tumblr Tracks Objectified Women in TV and Movie Posters by [Maggie Parker](https://time.com/author/maggie-parker/) ## Maggie Parker May 2, 2016 4:46 PM UTC  Getty Images by [Maggie Parker](https://time.com/author/maggie-parker/) ## Maggie Parker May 2, 2016 4:46 PM UTC Have you ever noticed how frequently women’s heads are cut off in movie and TV posters? Well, comedian Marcia Belsky has, and she wants the world to take note—so she created the Tumblr [The Headless Women of Hollywood](http://headlesswomenofhollywood.com/). “Headless Women project seeks to bring attention to the still standard practice of fragmenting, fetishizing and dehumanizing the images of women we see in film, TV, book covers and advertisements,” Belsky writes on the Tumblr. The images she posts consist of movie and TV posters that feature women without heads. They tend to focus on the legs, cleavage, torso or mouth—and completely cut off women’s faces. Belsky attaches funny but totally true comments to each image. These posters perpetuate the idea that a woman’s value is that of “her sexual appeal to men, and not of her personhood,” says Belsky. “The head is first and foremost the thinking part of the human body, where our motivations and feelings are located. So these images we are bombarded with on a daily basis tell us persistently that women’s thoughts, feelings and personal agency either don’t exist or are of no interest.” The Tumblr includes posters from _Hall Pass, Showgirls_ and _40 Days and 40 Nights—_films in which sex plays a big role in the central plot. However, it also includes images from films like _Minions, Crazy Stupid Love_ and _Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants—_movies that don’t focus on sex. Even some movies that feature empowering female leads have sexist posters, including _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ and _Charlie’s Angels._ **_Read more:_** [_Lili Taylor: The Most Apt Metaphor for Women in Hollywood_](http://motto.time.com/4308697/lili-taylor-women-hollywood/) Unfortunately, the list of shows and movies that objectify women goes on and on and on. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/"},"headline":"This Tumblr Tracks Objectified Women in TV and Movie Posters","datePublished":"2016-05-02T16:46:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:22.750Z","description":"'The Headless Women of Hollywood' makes a very heady point","url":"https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/","keywords":["motto","Media","Hollywood","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9272679a2921003d/69889169f887dc998fe95af2/women-hollywood-media-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maggie Parker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maggie-parker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9272679a2921003d/69889169f887dc998fe95af2/women-hollywood-media-sexism.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Old fashioned movie camera","caption":"Old fashioned movie camera","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4314088/women-media-sexist-tumblr/","name":"This Tumblr Tracks Objectified Women in TV and Movie Posters"}}]}] ```