CRITICAL THINKING
CLEARLY A WINNER Mullins after she completed a Spartan Race in Massachusetts in 2012. (Photo courtesy of Aimee Mullins)
WOMAN IN MOTION Mullins and her husband, actor Rupert Friend, attend the Museum of Modern Art’s Women in Motion screening of “Thelma & Louise” on Jan. 28 in New York. (Photo by Jim Spellman, Getty Images)
executives balked at the female lead, concerned she was too old. “She was two years younger than the male!
“When you’re an actor, you’re never privy to these conversations, because they don’t say that to your face. When you’re on the other side and you get to make these decisions because this is how you get financing for your projects, it is galling to see how women are talked about.”
CONCLUSION In addition to her Hollywood career, Mullins works with a number of women’s organizations, including the Women’s Sports Foundation, founded in 1974 by tennis great Billie Jean King. Mullins served as president from 2007 to 2009, and remains a trustee.
“It’s galvanizing to see that we do, in society, value our daugh- ters, and that’s been the most extraordinary thing in my work with the Women’s Sports Foundation,” she said. “We have the first generation of dads now who grew up under Title IX. Tey’re dads with daughters, and they call the foundation because they’re horrified that their son gets a brand-new uniform for baseball from the school budget and plays on a beautifully manicured field, while their daughter has to have bake sales and car washes to raise money for her new uniform, and gets the lesser- quality playing field. Tey’re shocked and upset that their
daughters would get less funds from the institutions that they pay their tax dollars to than their son does. And so we see the needle move much more quickly when it’s not just women rais- ing their hand saying, ‘Hey, this isn’t fair,’ but when you have everyone in society saying, ‘Hey, this isn’t fair.’ ”
In one of her TED Talks, Mullins said that, perhaps now, she didn’t wish that she’d been born with complete legs.
“If you’d asked me when I was 15 if I wanted to exchange my prostheses for legs of flesh and bone, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second. But if you were to ask me today, I’m not so sure. And this isn’t despite the experiences I’ve had with my legs, but thanks to them.”
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MICHAEL BOLD provides contract support to the U.S. Army Acqui- sition Support Center. He is a writer-editor for Network Runners Inc., with more than 30 years of editing experience at newspapers, including the McClatchy Washington Bureau, Te Sacramento Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri.
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