Main fandoms are Carmilla, Once Upon a Time, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor who but it tends to fall into chaos most of the time, leaving my blog with many fandoms and funny pictures of cats. So look on if you will, with the risk of disorder lying before you.
I’ve been chucking some old junk from my basement. I think I’ve upset the entity in the house. Lots of unexplainable falling items, burnt out light fixtures in the basement. I’ve explained to the entity why I need to clean house but stuff is still happening. Can I do anything else ?
“Listen, bitch, either cool your tits or I’m evicting your incorporeal ass.”
listen i might be drunk but im right. art & literature & nature & music make life worth living. people who look like they were ripped out of a caravaggio painting make life worth living. go organize a bacchanal in the woods. take pics of your lover in your hotel room in venice. who cares if there’s a void in your soul. who cares if you can’t get attached to anyone. neither can michelangelo’s david.
It’s kind of sad to me that “Bechdel test” has become so mainstream in media that it’s completely divorced from its original meaning and intent. Most of the women who talk about their fave romcoms “passing the Bechdel test” wouldn’t be caught dead reading a comic called Dykes to Watch Out For.
The point of the Bechdel test, isn’t just that two named women have a conversation that isn’t about a man, it’s about seeing representation for women in media that isn’t just based around relationships with men or objectification by men. It’s part of a conversation between two lesbians, women who don’t see themselves reflected in mainstream media.
The point of the “Bechdel test” is that it’s a very low, extremely low standard to judge a movie by, but most don’t even pass those qualifications. So to say that anything “passes the Bechdel test with flying colours” is completely missing the point.
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.