Actress promises a paranormal romp in a queer space, whatever that might mean
; it measures representation by running a film by three simple criteria: whether a movie has at least two women in it, who, two, talk to each other, about, three, something besides a man. Applied to a film about gay men, it has, perhaps, slightly less relevance in this case. The writer, clearly having not thought this through, posted a more thoughtful apology and deleted the tweet.
It grew beyond its original form, however, to become a bigger debate, as these moments often do, but in a lovely coda to this fire storm, Bechdelher own test. “Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel=pass,” she said.
I look forward to the extremely broad application of this note to all future films with the exact same premise.Photograph: Carlo Paloni/REX/Shutterstock for BAFTA I’m not a podcast aficionado – I claim to lack the time – although in the hope that I might become one some day, I have subscribed to several hundred of them.
At one stage, I thought I was definitely going to listen to a US podcast about permaculture that exceeds the two-hour mark each week and, ironically, ignoring the notifications for all of the podcasts I do not listen to probably takes as long as it would to just listen to an episode every now and then. But there is one that I listen to with true devotion and that isIt is on Audible, which means you do have to pay for it, and it’s Amazon-affiliated, like almost everything else.