[ SECRET POST #2470 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2470 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Homestuck, Teen Wolf, Supernatural and Sherlock]


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03.
[Supernatural]


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04.
[Watashi ga motenai no wa dou kangaetemo omaera ga warui]


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05.
[Agents of SHIELD]


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06.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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07.
[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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08.
[World of Warcraft]


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09.
[Pacific Rim]


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10.
[Richard III in "The White Queen"]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #353.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ariakas]

That... isn't and never was what the Bechdel test was supposed to be about. It was supposed to (and does) reveal an overarching trend in media: in spite of being slightly over half of the population, women are vastly outnumbered by men on screen. This isn't realistic, and if it reflects our cultural fantasies, then our cultural fantasies involve erasing the existence of women (unless their lives revolve around men).

The Mako Mori test has a pretty glaring flaw: having one female character and giving her an arc doesn't mean the creator hasn't made her into The Girl (onto which s/he projects all of their beliefs about women, good or bad) or Smurfette (the only woman in the world with anything of importance, while the rest of the cast is chock full of men who pass their own Test). That's still fucking regressive but it would pass the Mako Mori test. Also, it in no way discourages the only woman in the story from being (yet a-fucking-gain, aauauuugggh) the main love interest.

[crunchysunrises]

...technically, there are no female smurfs. Smurfette is made of evil magic and, uh, potions ingredients. And she was evil. (It was the power of smurfly love from her all-boy village that changed her.)

As a kid, I always wondered where the stork got the baby smurfs from... and if there were any girl-baby-smurfs there.

(And just so we're clear, I loved the smurfs.)

Smurfette would totally pass the Mako Mori test. She has several arcs of her own... and no female friends, not even after they added a second female character to the show. On the bright side, Smurfette was everyone's love interest and not interested in letting one of them be hers.