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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-05-11 10:39 am

Bechdelenalia

If you have an interest in The Bechdel Test (which a piece of media passes if it contains:
1) At least two women.
2) Who talk to each other
3) About something besides a man
)
then you might be interested in these two blogs:
http://thebechdeltest.blogspot.com/
http://bechdel-test.dreamwidth.org/

It's fascinating how much discussion is about whether a movie just about scrapes by...

(thanks to [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron for pointing me that way)

[identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
What I meant was, equality in stereotypes.

If the star role stereotypes are randomly assigned male or female sex, that's equal :-)