mellesonsec.bsky.social
@mellesonsec.bsky.social
CIO de mon cerveau.
Nouvelle ici.
Je crée un podcast sur la popculture et ce que nos écrans disent de nous.
CIO of my own brain.
New here.
I’m creating a podcast about pop culture and what our screens say about us.
Nouvelle ici.
Je crée un podcast sur la popculture et ce que nos écrans disent de nous.
CIO of my own brain.
New here.
I’m creating a podcast about pop culture and what our screens say about us.
Exercise for you:
Pick a series or film you love.
Apply 2 or 3 of these tests.
Notice what holds ,and what cracks.
If it resonates, tell me.
Pick a series or film you love.
Apply 2 or 3 of these tests.
Notice what holds ,and what cracks.
If it resonates, tell me.
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Exercise for you:
Pick a series or film you love.
Apply 2 or 3 of these tests.
Notice what holds ,and what cracks.
If it resonates, tell me.
Pick a series or film you love.
Apply 2 or 3 of these tests.
Notice what holds ,and what cracks.
If it resonates, tell me.
Taken together, these tools reveal something crucial:
Visibility ≠ centrality
Diversity ≠ structural change
Power ≠ freedom from norms
These tests aren’t judges.
They’re thermometers.
They don’t say “good” or “bad”.
They show what our fictions still consider normal.
Visibility ≠ centrality
Diversity ≠ structural change
Power ≠ freedom from norms
These tests aren’t judges.
They’re thermometers.
They don’t say “good” or “bad”.
They show what our fictions still consider normal.
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Taken together, these tools reveal something crucial:
Visibility ≠ centrality
Diversity ≠ structural change
Power ≠ freedom from norms
These tests aren’t judges.
They’re thermometers.
They don’t say “good” or “bad”.
They show what our fictions still consider normal.
Visibility ≠ centrality
Diversity ≠ structural change
Power ≠ freedom from norms
These tests aren’t judges.
They’re thermometers.
They don’t say “good” or “bad”.
They show what our fictions still consider normal.
The DuVernay Test shifts the focus:
Who is allowed an inner life?
Complexity?
Contradictions?
A trajectory of their own?
Applied to women’s stories, it asks:
Which women get depth?
Which are allowed to be flawed or ambivalent?
Which remain functional or stereotyped?
Who is allowed an inner life?
Complexity?
Contradictions?
A trajectory of their own?
Applied to women’s stories, it asks:
Which women get depth?
Which are allowed to be flawed or ambivalent?
Which remain functional or stereotyped?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The DuVernay Test shifts the focus:
Who is allowed an inner life?
Complexity?
Contradictions?
A trajectory of their own?
Applied to women’s stories, it asks:
Which women get depth?
Which are allowed to be flawed or ambivalent?
Which remain functional or stereotyped?
Who is allowed an inner life?
Complexity?
Contradictions?
A trajectory of their own?
Applied to women’s stories, it asks:
Which women get depth?
Which are allowed to be flawed or ambivalent?
Which remain functional or stereotyped?
The Bechdel Test asks only this:
– Are there two named women?
Do they talk to each other?
About something other than a man?
That’s it.And many stories still fail. doesn’t tell us if a work is feminist. It asks something more unsettling:Do women exist on screen as more than satellites orbiting men?
– Are there two named women?
Do they talk to each other?
About something other than a man?
That’s it.And many stories still fail. doesn’t tell us if a work is feminist. It asks something more unsettling:Do women exist on screen as more than satellites orbiting men?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The Bechdel Test asks only this:
– Are there two named women?
Do they talk to each other?
About something other than a man?
That’s it.And many stories still fail. doesn’t tell us if a work is feminist. It asks something more unsettling:Do women exist on screen as more than satellites orbiting men?
– Are there two named women?
Do they talk to each other?
About something other than a man?
That’s it.And many stories still fail. doesn’t tell us if a work is feminist. It asks something more unsettling:Do women exist on screen as more than satellites orbiting men?
To go further, there are simple (imperfect but revealing) tools to think with.
You might already know them:
The Bechdel Test & the DuVernay Test.
You might already know them:
The Bechdel Test & the DuVernay Test.
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
To go further, there are simple (imperfect but revealing) tools to think with.
You might already know them:
The Bechdel Test & the DuVernay Test.
You might already know them:
The Bechdel Test & the DuVernay Test.
So I’ll ask you directly:
Do you think female characters are still shaped by the male gaze today?
If yes ,in what forms?
And where do you feel the gaze actually shifts?
Do you think female characters are still shaped by the male gaze today?
If yes ,in what forms?
And where do you feel the gaze actually shifts?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
So I’ll ask you directly:
Do you think female characters are still shaped by the male gaze today?
If yes ,in what forms?
And where do you feel the gaze actually shifts?
Do you think female characters are still shaped by the male gaze today?
If yes ,in what forms?
And where do you feel the gaze actually shifts?
Many stories today call themselves feminist.
But do female characters truly exist for themselves?
Or are they still constructed from a symbolic reference point:
the white male gaze?
But do female characters truly exist for themselves?
Or are they still constructed from a symbolic reference point:
the white male gaze?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Many stories today call themselves feminist.
But do female characters truly exist for themselves?
Or are they still constructed from a symbolic reference point:
the white male gaze?
But do female characters truly exist for themselves?
Or are they still constructed from a symbolic reference point:
the white male gaze?
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
What is acceptable for a woman on screen?
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
What is acceptable for a woman on screen?
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
What is acceptable for a woman on screen?
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
What is acceptable for a woman on screen?
The male gaze isn’t just about who holds the camera.
It’s a logic of looking:
Who decides what is desirable?
Women are more visible, yes.
But they’re still often:
– filmed to be looked at before being listened to
– defined by desirability
– tied to a male character
– powerful, yet always “presentable”
Even when they’re supposed to be free.
Even when they’re framed as transgressive.
But they’re still often:
– filmed to be looked at before being listened to
– defined by desirability
– tied to a male character
– powerful, yet always “presentable”
Even when they’re supposed to be free.
Even when they’re framed as transgressive.
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Women are more visible, yes.
But they’re still often:
– filmed to be looked at before being listened to
– defined by desirability
– tied to a male character
– powerful, yet always “presentable”
Even when they’re supposed to be free.
Even when they’re framed as transgressive.
But they’re still often:
– filmed to be looked at before being listened to
– defined by desirability
– tied to a male character
– powerful, yet always “presentable”
Even when they’re supposed to be free.
Even when they’re framed as transgressive.
When I watch many recent films and TV shows, I keep asking myself:
Have female characters really escaped the male gaze?
Or has it simply changed shape?
Have female characters really escaped the male gaze?
Or has it simply changed shape?
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
When I watch many recent films and TV shows, I keep asking myself:
Have female characters really escaped the male gaze?
Or has it simply changed shape?
Have female characters really escaped the male gaze?
Or has it simply changed shape?
At the end she had more humanity for animals than people. She was extremely racist.
December 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
At the end she had more humanity for animals than people. She was extremely racist.
it’s just show how people need something nice to watch and forget the real world
elmo is standing in front of a fire with the words `` so it begins '' .
ALT: elmo is standing in front of a fire with the words `` so it begins '' .
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December 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
it’s just show how people need something nice to watch and forget the real world