Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Deep Thoughts about Gender in Pop Culture: Tools for Feminist Analysis (BONUS)
The Bechdel Test. Mary Sue. Born Sexy Yesterday. When thinking deep thoughts about media, patterns emerge. Patterns and litmus tests and tropes. It can be useful to have some shared language to allow us to get deeper, quicker (intellectually speaking).
In this bonus episode, we define and provide examples of some useful tools that help us to understand media with a feminist lens. Gender difference matters IRL and media and fiction help to reify–or subvert–those differences. A combination of rubrics, tropes, and authorial short-cuts, this episode unpacks 6 concepts that inform our analyses: the Bechdel Test, Mary Sues, Born-Sexy-Yesterday, Manic Pixie Dream Girls, the Sexy Lamp Test, and Refrigerating Women.
Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our family as the Guy Girls.
We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com
We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, and analyzing pop culture for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, and whatever else we find.