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Just found a cool site to check if a movie passes the Bechdel Test.

The test is aimed at film (although some people use it for other media, i.e. books, graphic novels, etc.)
There are 3 components:

1. Are there at least TWO women in the film *usually requires two women with names although I've seen it used either way2. Do these two women talk TO ( Read more... )

Article in Bitch magazine about a handful of little kids who are in the spotlight for things like fashion, food criticism, and writing. And then a comparison for girls.

The same old problems.

The number of boys v. girls. Despite being roughly a bit over 1/2 the population, there is only one girl mentioned to the four boys in the piece. We don't ( Read more... )

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I can't help but view the whole Conan O'Brien v. Jay Leno* situation as a giant metaphor for Gen X v. The Baby Boomers ( Read more... )

So I've been re-reading Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman ( Read more... )

I've been really terrible about bothering to update. It's not that I don't have great ideas, it's that they inevitably occur when I'm nowhere near a computer or lj. Naturally I immediately forget these great ponderings and am left with the mundane details of life ( Read more... )