flowcart

overthinking it have come up with this amusing flowchart...

Quoted...

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/you-feminists-just-want-to-tell-women-to-do-what-you-want-instead-of-letting-them-choose-and-we-all-know-girls-choose-the-girly-stuff/

That line “I hope they have a similar program for males! That’s true equality,” is like sandpaper on a wound. I hear that stuff all the time and I don’t even know how to deal with it.

I have a friend who has a great response to this: if you have a cold bath, and you want to make it warm, you don’t add more cold water. You only add hot water.

a quote i found

"feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women - as well as with other men. feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so."

http://jezebel.com/5044068/guyland-debunks-the-american-douchebag-in-academic-terms

times-a-changin, female body has never been right...

movie test...

found this at http://smartlikeme.wordpress.com/

The Bechdel Test:

To pass it your movie must have the following:

1) there are at least two named female characters, who

2) talk to each other about

3) something other than a man.

So simple, and yet as you go through all your favorite movies (and most of your favorite TV shows, though there’s a little more variety in TV), you find very few movies pass this test.

I watched anchorman last night, and yeh ok.. it's anchorman.

It *nearly* passed the test when Veronica Corningstone is out with 'Helen', a character who i think has 2 speaking lines in the film, and Helen tells Veronica that Ron will read anything that is put on the teleprompter, ANYTHING.

So it passes the '2 named female characters' just about..

Having a conversation... just about, the scene is about 30 seconds long

About something other than a man FAIL

Maybe anchorman is too easy. Other recent films, Mamma Mia and Juno. both directed by women though... um... does that make a difference?