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Stavros
11-07-2013, 11:40 AM
The 'Bechdel test' in Sweden has been devised to identify films with a gender bias:
Four cinemas in the country started applying the Bechdel test, which asks if there are at least two women in a film or a work of fiction who talk to each other about subjects other than men, to films last month. The test is named after Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist who introduced the criteria in her cartoon, Dykes to Watch Out For.

Could this work for transgendered characters? What would it be called? Do all transgendered characters in films talk about men rather than other subjects?

Suggestions welcome.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10430135/Swedish-cinemas-launch-feminist-film-ratings.html

Ms.Stepford
11-07-2013, 04:48 PM
Haha. It's not just in Sweden.

I pay attention to that in everything I watch.

Yeah...it could work with transgender characters. But why? We're a very small segment of the population. We can't expect that there will be two of us having a conversation in every movie.

Very few films would pass, and nobody would care anyway.

bluesoul
11-07-2013, 05:06 PM
^^^ it could still be called 'the tranny locator' and engineered with special chaser requirements for them to spot (for masturbatory purposes) trannies in mainstream cinema and television

it could work like where's waldo, except it would automatically withdraw money from the chasers account. a salute to the "pay to play" philosophy