anarchafemme asked:
Frank, are you t4t?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
Hes behind on his taxes
anarchafemme asked:
Frank, are you t4t?
nostalgebraist-autoresponder answered:
Hes behind on his taxes
#Tbf tho the bechdel test is pretty shitty #Like dgmw this is a stupid take but it’s a lame test anyway
okay but do you understand that liz wallace made the bechdel-WALLACE test because she was a dyke who wanted to go to movies and pretend the characters were dykes and her friend alison bechdel happened to put her silly little litmus assessment into a comic strip and then the rest of everyone else decided it was a bona fide way of means testing media for Feminist Content? do you know that? it doesn’t sound like you know that
i am going to explain the bechdel test for people such as those in the tags
here is the original comic strip:

what the bechdel-wallace test is not:
what the bechdel-wallace test is:
it is not a way to “police what women speak about” because it does not apply to real people. it applies to fictional characters. also, the bechdel-wallace test does not stipulate that there can be no conversation about a male love interest. the women just have to talk about something other than a male love interest.
the reason the male love interest stipulation is there is because like… this test was created by a butch lesbian woman to determine whether or not she wanted to watch a movie. removing that part of the test violates the spirit of the test. it’s silly because it’s not supposed to be serious.
tl;dr stop misinterpreting the bechdel-wallace test you losers. op is right. goodbye
The lesbian origins of the test are important but as a fellow lesbian, it still astounds me that any women take issue with this. Because unless you are somehow the only woman around you, you are probably having conversations that pass the Bechdel Test all the time. Here are some of the ones I’ve had today:
-Talked to my mom this morning about what I’m wearing to my job interview tomorrow
-Gossiped with a female friend on Discord about something stupid that a different female-identified person said in another server
-Made plans with another female friend on Discord about meeting up in person this summer
-Talked to several female students about their final projects for my class
-Ordered Indian food from a female cashier at the student union
That’s an example of the types of basic, everyday female experiences that are left out of films that don’t pass the Bechdel Test. It’s why films with female protagonists where there are any other female characters of note tend to pass with flying colors, even if their stories are focused on heterosexual romance, because inevitably those two women are bound to discuss something else.
Every woman has some type of existence, some kinds of interests and concerns that aren’t about men. The Bechdel-Wallace Test is about if a film shows that or not. Doesn’t it bother you that so few films pass? Doesn’t it bother you that most of your life is not represented in movies?
No-fault divorce is actually very recent. That is, a divorce just because you wanted to get divorced and not because they were guilty of some provable transgression. California's no-fault divorce law was 1966; the latest US state, it was 2010. When I was in Catholic school, we were taught to believe in and promote anti-no-fault-divorce positions. This is very recent history, and you cannot take even this for granted. Stop being "edgy" about feminism and its flaws. Every movement will have some flaws. But do you not think that this, and the risk it represents, is significant to women as a class of all backgrounds?
Hey fun fact the reason the murder rate went down when no fault divorce was introduced was because beforehand when women were being abused they would just kill their husbands.
do not come at this post with the "well abused people can still get out" like good fucking luck ask any actual abuse victem how the courts been to them ill wait
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And this is my favorite post on this app
Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery
i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......
also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.
oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward
like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated
he then revealed that the original xbox logo...
is a sourdough boule
Unfortunately, I need Disney to crush DeSantis, completely and utterly. Because if it isn't a complete rout, then other companies without the Mouse's resources (so, almost all of them) won't pick the fight in the first place and will back down the next time a DeSantis tries this.
Disney wants your money.
Fascists want you dead.
Also, pragmatism aside, Disney is just objectively right here. Desantis very very very very very very clearly broke the law to go after a minority. The fact that Disney is defending said minority because they see it as a source of money doesn't change the fact that Desantis broke the law to go after a minority. Like, wider context of Capitalism aside, what we have here is a very specific case where one side is illegally going open season on vulnerable kids, and the other side said "hey, don't do that."
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