Gender is one of those issues that has been so shitted that it is difficult to know how to tackle. I came the other day across this test for films, which makes for a great start. Now it is unavoidable for me to mentally apply it to any film I watch (or quit watching).
It only has three questions:
1:Are there two or more female characters with names?
2:Do they talk to each other?
3:If they talk to each other, do they talk about something other than a man?
Here’s a nice video with juicy examples:
(Its original source was the great blog of the scriptwriter John August, check it out if you are into fiction writing).
Are things slowly changing? I’d like to think so.
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