{"id":152832,"date":"2015-05-26T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/26\/a-tasting-menu-of-female-representation-2\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:56:21","slug":"a-tasting-menu-of-female-representation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/26\/a-tasting-menu-of-female-representation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tasting Menu of Female Representation:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cl-hilbert.tumblr.com\/post\/111783628775\/a-tasting-menu-of-female-representation\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">cl-hilbert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bechdel_test\" target=\"_blank\">The Bechdel:<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>two or more women talking to each other about something other than a man<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/fandom\/mako-mori-test-bechdel-pacific-rim\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mako Mori:<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>at least one female character with her own narrative arc that is not about supporting a man\u2019s story<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2013\/06\/20\/kelly-sue-deconnick-talks-captain-marvel-pretty-deadly-and-the-sexy-lamp-test\" target=\"_blank\">The Sexy Lamp:<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>a female character that cannot be removed from the plot and replaced with a sexy lamp without destroying the story. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chef\u2019s Specials:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Website\/WomenInRefrigerators?from=Main.WomenInRefrigerators\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The Anti-Freeze:<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>no woman assaulted, injured or killed to further the story of another character.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/03\/magazine\/a-plague-of-strong-female-characters.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The \u201cStrength is Relative\u201d:<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>complex women defined by solid characterization rather than a handful of underdeveloped masculine-coded stereotypes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cl-hilbert: The Bechdel: two or more women talking to each other about something other than a man The Mako Mori: at least one female character with her own narrative arc that is not about supporting a man\u2019s story The Sexy Lamp: a female character that cannot be removed from the plot and replaced with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/26\/a-tasting-menu-of-female-representation-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tasting Menu of Female Representation:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[208,4,15701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}