Three rules

[longleggedgit]

I was reading a little old-school Dykes to Watch Out For the other day, which is one of my favorite comic strips, and one of the comics really got to me. One character suggested they take in a movie, and the other enlightened her to the three rules she applies to movies she wants to see. They have to

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[longleggedgit]

Isn't Alison Bechdel a god! And yeah, definitely. If nothing else, it's good to think about!

Ahhh I figured I probably missed something! I was a little shaky on the details. I do have to wonder, though, if characters who are so minor as to not have a name should even count.

Yeah, SH fails, sadly, even though I will say that at least both the female characters in it are interesting and strong and don't just exist to be arm ornaments to their male counterparts. But yes, I was thinking about shows a bit, too! 30 Rock is great for that, and Big Love, also.

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I was actually just thinking about Merlin, and I think it does fit the bill, yeah! They have at least a few conversations about, y'know, Morgana's health and magic and the like. Still, I'd say it's at least half-and-half with conversations about men.

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I think Joss Whedon generally has damn good female characters; I applaud him on that. (Not universally, but then again, I don't have universally good female characters in the shit I write, I'm sure.)

And yeah, it's EXTRA rare for these guidelines to work for women AND people of color. I suppose, sticking with Whedon as an example, Firefly would work for both?

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HAHA. Well I definitely like a fair number of his shows, like Buffy and Firefly, but I totally agree with you that a lot of his fans seem to think he's flawless (durr, no) and hold him up as a god, which is just dumb. I've always considered him pretty feminist, BUT I haven't seen Dollhouse, and I've heard that one is a little . . . well, it might change my tune.

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PS, utterly unrelated, but I've been meaning to show you this.

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I still need to read P&P&Z. Is it good?? The guy who wrote it strikes me as entirely pretentious, but I guess that's just most English people (not as in, from England, as in, writing shit in the field of English) and I should be used to it by now.