Deep Thoughts about Gender in Pop Culture: Tools for Feminist Analysis (BONUS)

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This full BONUS episode is being released to everyone, but moving forward, bonuses will be reserved exclusively for patrons. Join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thoughts by visiting us on Patreon. We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!