Comments on: Regendered insects

by: Blue Jean

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:49:42 +0000

I am kinda grateful that most computer games are fighting games, b/c if they made creative mystery/puzzler/platformers, I’d never get anything else done. As it is, there are only a couple of titles a year that aren’t full of blood and guts and violence that I and my husband feel like playing.

Have you tried Ghost Master yet? I hesitate to mention it since it is highly addictive, but it's a puzzle/strategy game, sort of "Ghostbusters" meets "Mission: Impossible" crossed with "The Sims". Best of all, there's an equal number of boy spooks and girl spooks, and some that can't be defined. True, there is one ghost who scares victims by ripping his own head off, but hey, if you wanna scare folks, you gotta spill some blood sometimes.

by: maxmilian

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:53:41 +0000

Wow, look at all the “only” exceptions.
If my son wanted to play with girl dolls, he could. But the real problem is not that the dolls are female, but that almost every toy centered around a female character is insufferably dull to a boy.
I know it seems harsh to say, but it seems the real problem is that what attracts (most)girls is social issues, and not so much in (most)young boys.

by: Todd

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:11:18 +0000

Someone was mentioning TV series that make the Bechdel cut earlier. One that would pass with flying colors would be Six Feet Under. Lots of rich, well-written female characters that interact realistically. But I’m looking in my DVD/VHS collection, and there’s not a lot of movies that make it, if I were to guess offhand.

by: Aaron

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:19:18 +0000

Also the fact that bees need humans to consume honey in order to exist is also bull crap. It was just a ploy to have kids/adult not feel guilty and instead have a good feeling that they are doing the bees a favor by consuming honey.

by: windy

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:20:50 +0000

Barbarella.

by: Gia

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:44:29 +0000

Talking bees….Who thought that was a good idea?! Especially with Seinfeld?! Hollywood is producing more and more junk unfortunately…

by: Nancy

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:40:13 +0000

Ooh, ooh, I thought of one: the movie “Wit,” with Emma Thompson. It wasn’t a blockbuster, but it did have many scenes between Emma and her nurse, talking about stuff.

That was based on the play, and the play almost didn’t get produced - according to author Margaret Edson, she sent the play out to every production company in the US and all but one rejected it. It then went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.

The theatre world is almost as bad as the movies in the male:female ratio.

by: Nancy

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:30:58 +0000

Chicken Run had an all-female cast of chickens in an egg farm/prisoners in a concentration camp, and it was awesome

Surely NO MEN or BOYS went to see that movie, since everybody knows that males will refuse to see anything unless the gender ratio is at least 5:1 in favor of males.

Or is the no-females rule simply a justification for men to continue to absolutely dominate entertainment-industry decision making?

by: Nancy

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:28:36 +0000

Actually, now that I think about it, pretty much any straight porn movie which includes a girl-on-girl scene (interrupted or not) is going to pass this test. So as I said before, it’s hardly a sufficient condition for feminist content.

Clearly I haven’t seen enough porn. Which ones have you seen where the girl-on-girls discuss something besides men?

by: Original Lee, Demigoddess of Apple Strudel

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:01:19 +0000

I think “Soapdish,” “9 to 5,” and “Fame” all pass.

Are comedies more likely to pass than other types of movies?