that female characters don't get to have flaws when the male ones do.
I don't insist that the stuff I watch pass the Bechdel test, but I do insist that the entire female contingent not be describable as - totally evil - stupid - lust-addled dupe - the punchline
Joan tends towards the last. It's a sad thing to celebrate "hey, it's been three weeks since someone asked her to her face if she was a prostitute!"
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Date: 2013-03-20 01:44 am (UTC)I don't insist that the stuff I watch pass the Bechdel test, but I do insist that the entire female contingent not be describable as
- totally evil
- stupid
- lust-addled dupe
- the punchline
Joan tends towards the last. It's a sad thing to celebrate "hey, it's been three weeks since someone asked her to her face if she was a prostitute!"