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#GoT. @jusjuel "THREE main female characters raped who weren’t raped in the books. I think I’m done with the show.” IMDB Game of Thrones (2011) Actors: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage

Sutherland says he believes Bullock (lawyer) should be treated equally, and sends her on an errand to fetch booze. She complies. Judd plays the 'I can't let my man do his racist-shaming, rapist-killer-protection job' trope. Why do Bullock and Judd do this? IMDB A Time to Kill (1996) Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock Director: Joel Schumacher

I watched Dexter over a while, every episode with no other movie interruptions. I was enthralled but not entirely happy. The following are episodic notes. Dexter continues to offend. She makes excuses for his violations. Dexter continues to offend. So she spoke to him in a normal voice, he violates the custody agreement anyway. Dexter continues to offend. She doesn’t call the police. He’s in her house, she has a restraining order. Dexter, I ‘get’ the code. I like the idea of Repurposing people as fish food. What a great new for a cult. Repurposing. IMDB Dexter (Series 2006) Actors: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter

Jon Cryer. "John Hughes originally wrote 'Pretty in Pink' with Blane leaving the prom and Andie and Duckie ending up together — if not romantically, then at least geographically on the dance floor. Test audiences booed this ending, so the filmmakers reshot it to have Andie and Blane end up together, which test audiences liked a lot more. Fans who hated the change refer to it as “Duckiegate". IMDB Pretty in Pink (1986) Actors: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer Director: Howard Deutch

There’s plenty of women-bashing in Frasier. Roz's mother was Attorney General of Wisconsin and Frasier says that he hopes his father remembers to curtsy when meeting her. Roz gets to do a stinky look, but not to say anything. Later further insults of her being boring (to justify the lack of defence?)... Eva Marie Saint... boring... I don’t think so. And it's a slap in the face for her too. Please tell me the irony was intentional? IMDB Frasier S06E12 (Series 1998) Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves

Unbelievable end - he wants an insane woman-bunny-boiler after dumping another bunny boiler. MYSOGYNIST. IMDB The Pill (2011) Actors: Noah Bean, Rachel Boston Director: J.C. Khoury

Bechdel-pass because McAdams asks Stone to take a tray to the table. #Aargh. IMDB Aloha (2015) Actors: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams Director: Cameron Crowe

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I can’t bear foreign films, but Penelope Cruz appeared, and she’s a dyke! #GLUED! IMDB All About my Mother (1999) Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Charming. The Bechdel-passing scene has a woman asking another woman to play the rape victim in a rape-evening game. IMDB The Onion Movie (2008) Actors: Len Cariou, Sarah McElligott Directors: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire

They speak about split ends, so it passes the Bechdel. Annoyingly, Faulkner is as genius a writer as he is sexist. IMDB The Long Hot Summer (1958) Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward Director: Martin Ritt

Bechdel passer. Barbra Streisand to named waitress, "You should never eat starch and fruit at the same time." Have to pass it on the test on this. Aargh! IMDB All Night Long (1981) Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand Director: Jean-Claude Tramont

Aargh. Frustrating to have to put these sorts of films on the Bechdel list when all the women talk about is how much food they made or if they can stay for tea or not. The rest of the film they demonstrate how they are NOT allies to each other. IMDB All That Heaven Allows (1955)  Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson Director: Douglas Sirk

Snore... woman pleading with men not to go and do what they need to do. All women are are hindrances. There's also the mourning woman, the abandoned mother, the sacrificial woman... they're speeding through the tropes. IMDB American Sniper (2014) Actors: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller Director: Clint Eastwood

🍒 Bechdel-passer (with five words), and the lead is a woman (brains, character, ethics, wit, but she doesn't get her guy, she gets another different sporty non-news guy that we never get to 'read') and the men do battle over one of them being stupid but pretty and the other being brilliant, and funny, but 'ugly'. But seriously, MIND-blowing dialogue, by the same guy that did As Good As it Gets (1997) . Oooh! IMDB Broadcast News (1987) Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks Director: James L. Brooks

🍒 About to watch it again, I reckon for the 15th or so time. I have done a mini survey and have discovered to my horror that most people would never consider watching a movie more than three times. Am I a rat with its paw on a lever? Are there other rats out there?? IMDB Addicted to Love (1997) Actors: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick Director: Griffin Dunne

*eyeroll* - all the clichés - lesbian has to die; all you need is a good f*ck; weak if he takes control; a man with no job is better than a woman with any prospects; she ends up with the man. *yawn* from a DH Lawrence story, I should have known. IMDB The Fox (1967) Actors: Keir Dullea, Sandy Dennis Director: Mark Rydell

Paul Newman and bully, George Kennedy, are boxing it out in the yard. Kennedy is twice the size of Newman, who keeps getting up, figuratively calling Kennedy out, "Bully, Bully, Bully," because he just won't stop hitting Newman. The men in the yard start saying to Kennedy to stop, and Newman keeps getting up and swinging a feeble swing. Eventually, Kennedy clicks that his power display is undermining him, and quits. Back in the day, movies spoke. IMDB Cool Hand Luke (1967) Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy Director: Stuart Rosenberg

#OMG. Aaron Sorkin just put responsibility into a man's mouth. "I can't be without a job, I'm responsible for my children's tuition." I'm in love, or I came, or something. So refreshing to not have a man talking about which hole is his favorite or how many seconds it takes him to steal or kill. Oh. Heaven. Thanks, Sorkin. That was a good one. #Feminism lives in men. AND another man said, "It's really OK, I understand." Oh wow. Oh super wow. x 855. A lot. IMDB The Newsroom (Series 2012)  Actors: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer

Derailment can happen  on  all the 'sides' of a discussion, the hard part is facilitating forward motion and 'keeping it clean', i.e.  keeping  the  derailers  voiced, fair and not vitriolic. Now we need to turn  derailers  into some form of  ally  because  derailers  become the 'face' of the group. On another comment stream: http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/09/no-more-allies/ #Race ~ #Feminism. #Separatism. #Apartheid. Mary Daly got fired for teaching  derailers  in separate spaces, sadly, but I always understood why she did it, empathized. I'm in the camp of "white people should shut the fuck up" as a general rule (á la Samantha Vice and Gillian Schutte), except when we are talking to our fellow white people. I don't get it right all the time, but I want to.  On another comment stream: Perhaps by claiming a white space they are acknowledging that white women think feminism is 'good for' ...