I don't know how it's called but there actually exists a list about what a movie has to fulfil to be counted as non-sexist.
The Bechdel test. For your information, that test was made up by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel in 1985, when it appeared in her comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For. As such it is a pretty meaningless and one-sided analysis tool that's been derided by anyone with half a brain, except by third wave feminists (how surprising...not).
Gender might be, in and of itself, one of many tools to analyze an art piece, but I have yet to see a proper gender critique that doesn't fall in the common trappings of slandering a cultural product and its creator(s) for supposedly harboring hidden misogynistic tendencies. Furthermore, most people leveling this sort of criticism usually tend to be heavily agenda driven megalomaniacal individuals out to make a name for themselves, no matter how and at who's expenses. All I've ever witnessed in such critics is a profound ignorance regarding the topic they spew their bile at, as well as a constant appeal to their audience's basest instincts and a pronouced hatred towards facts or arguments that contradict their narrative.
Besides, anyone putting together a list of things that should feature, or not, in a film or in any other cultural product in order for them to be "socially acceptable" is a certified moron, who either doesn't understand the point of art in the first place or simply wishes to muzzle anyone else's freedom of expression but their own.
And if you really believe that women only exist to support male dominance in films, then how about you stop watching dumb Hollywood productions and start looking into foreign films? Or better yet, just drop the overly simplistic feminist lens and proceed to actually see all those black and white Hollywood classics, which are in fact brimming with powerful and strong female characters and performances. Why don't you try expanding your horizons before you buy into the tripe those sensationalism mongers are peddling?
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Kent_Kainer
8 years ago
It could be made up by a chimp and still keep its point.
It's no point to determine the quality of a movie. Or reduce a movie just to that.
Passing the test can still mean a stupid movie with one dimensional female characters.
And who says that it has to step out of that?
It's the point that 'points out' the role of a woman does not even reach a cliche level of talking about women topics like makeup, to another woman. Let alone none-cliche topics.
Whether the movie is good or not is completely off this fact. It's subjective anyway.
And to get back at the topic... It's my reply to this topic complaining about a reserve setup.
And if you really believe that women only exist to support male dominance in films, then how about you stop watching dumb Hollywood productions and start looking into foreign films?
I said it's Hollywood. And many blockbusters.
I didn't say it's all. Nor did I say that I dislike those movies.
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PreachCaleb
8 years ago
It's the point that 'points out' the role of a woman does not even reach a cliche level of talking about women topics like makeup, to another woman. Let alone none-cliche topics.
Correct. The Bechdel test was satirizing that most Hollywood movies don't even include those three requirements for women, yet are loaded with them for men.
Let's be bad guys.
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