fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with beige and woodland green alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a disgruntled looking white sheep. Top text: “Friend asks if you wanna see a movie.” Bottom text: “IDK, does it pass the Bechdel test?”]

http://bechdeltest.com/

I still find it hard to be a fan of the Bechdel Test. I understand that as a tool to demonstrate the unequal representation of gender in the film industry it works really well, which is great. But when it’s used as a tool to boycott individual films it really annoys me, as so many great films fail the test, and so many shit films pass it. And given the unequal ratio of Shit to Great films it seems inevitable that although this may have the effect of balancing gender representation, it will have the much more profound effect of encouraging shit films to be produced and seen, purely because they learn to squeeze in a couple of unrelated dialogue lines between two female characters. I’d much rather it balance out due to people only supporting great films, which will balance out the gender problem due to unique and high quality writing, instead of studios just trying to recreate The Hangover.

(via harrietta)