Interesting Links for 08-01-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Why so many people are wrong about Susan in the Chronicles of Narnia

(tags:women narnia )

2. Finding the will to transition.

(tags:transgender LGBT society )

3. Wil Wheaton assures you that he is a fully functional human with a backstory and everything.

(tags:celebrity )

Comments

Narnia and the Bechdel test ?

[bens_dad]

1 I'm not sure what to make of the Bechdel challenge Every Narnian chronicle also passes the Bechdel test and you find me another children's book series from the 50's that also does that.

Was the 50's worse than the thirties or forties, or would they satisfy Kat ? Of the top of my head I'm thinking Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (1930-45), Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine stories (1943-78).

From what I remember, Enid Blyton's "Adventure" series probably pass. I don't know the Famous Five or the Secret Seven, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do too.

EDB's Chalet School and the other Girls Gone By series "obviously" don't count because they are girl's stories not children's ?

Re: Narnia and the Bechdel test ?

[magedragonfire]

The Bechdel test is a really low bar to pass, and purposefully so. It's more for highlighting the sheer amount of both modern and historical media that don't pass. Twilight passes. I'm pretty sure that, going further back than the fifties, all of the Anne of Green Gables series does, too (even before Anne herself is old enough to be counted as a woman).

It's a little bit of an odd gotcha for her to bring out when the rest of her point is salient without it.

Re: Narnia and the Bechdel test ?

[ckd]

You know what else passes the Bechdel test?

The spoken introduction to Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back".

Re: Narnia and the Bechdel test ?

[magedragonfire]

A shining example of feminism! :P

(Still a fun song, though.)

Re: Narnia and the Bechdel test ?

[ckd]

Also useful for setting up logic puzzles. "Sir Mix-a-Lot likes big butts and cannot lie. His identical twin brother likes small butts and cannot tell the truth. You meet one of them on the road one day and can only ask one question - can you determine which brother you have met?"