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QC and the Bechdel test
Thrillho:
Is the point not that a piece of work can have sexist qualities while also inherently being not sexist?
Aziraphale:
I think it's also worth drawing a bright line between characters and authorial intent. In other words, there's a world o' difference between portraying sexist characters, or even generally non-sexist characters who are only human and therefore sometimes say sexist or otherwise dumb things, and the work on the whole (or its author) being sexist. Portraying something isn't necessarily an endorsement of that thing.
Oenone:
One way I think QC is sometimes frustrating is that female bodily autonomy wrt to boobs is more a punchline. I'm not sure whether that's sexism tho or just a weird blind spot.
I also liked RF's earlier point that QC passes the reverse of the Bechdel far more often with a smaller male cast than it does the original Bechdel. Like, boys are hecka interesting but they do consume a disproportionate amount of the conversation
Aziraphale:
There are certain things that get recycled a lot, and that seems to be one of them (at least as far as Faye and Marigold are concerned). Sometimes it barely registers, but there've been a few storylines (like the Lake House arc) where a character's obvious discomfort in their own body, and the jokes piled on top of it, made for uncomfortable reading (and I say this as a guy, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the female readership might also take issue with it). The only other analog I can think of (aside from a couple of passing references to Marten's skinniness) would be a handful of jokes about Clinton's hand, but that's not even close to being the same thing.
Schwungrad:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 17 Mar 2015, 12:29 ---a handful of jokes about Clinton's hand
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I see what you did there :claireface:
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