Geena Davis says ‘we are unwittingly training kids to have unconscious bias’ at ACMI’s Goddess talk

Academy Award winner and ambassador Geena Davis has delivered the keynote address at ACMI's Goddess exhibition.

For Geena Davis, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, equality begins at home.

‘I posit that if we are to achieve true equality, we must kill off the fathers too,’ Davis joked wryly.

‘Politeness almost killed me, literally’ she said, before divulging a tale of being sat in the car with her uncle driving so dangerously that he almost hit an oncoming car, where no-one said anything for fear of being impolite.

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