According Michael Moore, the lack of female directors in Hollywood isn’t just kind of sexist but actually “a form of apartheid.”

During a Q&A session at the New York Film Festival on Sunday, Moore expressed absolute horror and disgust that only 1.9 percent of last year’s top-grossing 100 films were directed by women.

“It’s a form of apartheid, folks, when a minority controls everything and the majority gets a bone thrown to them,” he said, according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s just absolutely wrong.”

Moore emphasized that he was “not saying that just because [he’s] a liberal making a politically correct statement,” but because he desperately wants to hear women’s stories and is “missing out” on them because of the way things are.

“When you block out whole groups of film by that cinema, what are the great films that you and I are missing because their great voices can’t be heard?” he asked.

#share#Now, Moore is absolutely right that blocking an entire group from making movies would be not cool. According to my research, however, there are actually no laws or rules that are doing that.

Moore emphasized that something must be done to “fix” the problem — and suggested that repeatedly complaining about it would be a great start:

#related#“Women [and] especially men need to say this, and say it over and over and then do something about it.”

Hm. I guess one solution could be for someone with connections, money, and a voice to work with female directors to promote their movies in the hopes that more of them might make it to the top of the box office.

If only Moore himself were in a position to do so.

— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.