Although the test has tongue-in-cheek origins, it nonetheless underscores the dearth of multidimensional female characters in mainstream movies.
He also wrote that movies arent intended to be a proper demographic cross-section of America.
These extreme characters tend to be men, and men tend to be the ones who create them.
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It forces us to think more deliberately about sexism in art.
Several readers also mocked Smiths comparison of women and cowboys.
Ah yes, cowboys, that underrepresented 50% of the population, one wrote.
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