Rick Moen wrote:
..............snip The test very simply is: At any time during the movie / novel / etc., does such a conversation occur at all?
OK; so just one conversation between two female characters involving a reference to a male; is a sufficient condition to fail the test ?
The beauty of it is that it's deterministic and makes no ideological claims about what yes or no outcome might automatically mean for work X. It implicitly acknowledges that there might be any number of reasons other than sexism why it works out to 'no'.
But in practice it's an interesting metric.
though no comment on : "Also the anti-sexist context; seems to miss the more general problem of the cliched nature of story-telling;(so evident in Hollywood's view of the world). That is how to tell a story in a way which will be appealing to an audience, whose real interests are very narrow ? " regards Rohan McLeod