I recently saw the movie Hidden Figures in theaters. It was an amazing movie to watch especially as a woman. The movie made me feel very empowered and proud to be a women in this time. So much has been achieved since the sixties, yet there is far to go.

In the movie, the three main characters each make great bounds in their fields of science and mathematics. They are the first African american women to do many things such as work at NASA, become an engineer, and calculate the go/no-go coordinates for many of the space shuttle returns to Earth.

This is one of the first Hollywood movies I have seen that strictly shows women for their achievements instead of as sexual beings or objects for the possession of men. For a long time, Hollywood has continually objectified women in the movies, whether they are a leading role or not they tend to be seen as a sexual being or are put in the movie for the benefit of men, as eye candy or sex appeal. There have been many movies that claim to have empowering women as lead characters but when you look at the descriptions for those movies, the women are described as sexy or evocative of sexual feelings towards them. Their entire character or persona is created to draw in the male eye.

Hidden Figures spared no expense and made no room for the benefit of men. The movie solely focuses on being empowering to women, not being eye candy to men. It is 2017, there should be more of these types of movies. Now that I have seen Hidden Figures, I know that Hollywood can easily portray women of great accomplishment without drawing attention to sex. I want the girls of the next generation and if I have a daughter in the future, to know that women can be great not just sexual objects and to be proud to have been born a woman. I know Hollywood can create these empowering movies so I plan to see more of them in the future.