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When I was young, my mom rounded up my family to take us somewhere to adopt a cat. We ended up falling in love with a pair of cats, a brother and sister that I named Kimi and Chuckie after the redheaded Rugrat and his adopted Parisian (??) sister. As we were adopting them, some rando saw what we were doing and, being the white man that he was,
The Bechdel Test is a criterion for judging films that was created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It requires that a movie have at least two (named) women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The test is a quick, easy way to judge whether any group of movies (say: everything currently in theaters) is sexist. It’s such a simple metric, but it really snaps into view how many mainstream films (around 40 to 50 percent!) either don’t feature women or use women only as devices to further stories about men, to provide exposition or eye candy or cheap stakes (i.e., I’m doing this heist to get back my estranged hot wife, who had one line in the whole movie!!!). It’s not surprising that in real life men treat women as disposable, as less real, like their desires and preferences and consent matter less than a man’s, when films tell men that women are just props and that men are the protagonists.
Professionally Woke Insecure Boys
I am very vigilant about excluding these kinds of men from my life. One strategy for doing this is rolling my eyes. Men hate this very much and are constantly telling me to stop. It’s like that Margaret Atwood quote that men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them: men hate when I roll my eyes at them, and I
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