It's not fair to a lot of storytelling -- but the fact that a lot of fandoms don't have many female characters or have the female characters appearing in token roles is one of the things the test points out that I do agree with. I think things have gotten somewhat better in recent years but there's still a way to go.
I don't think the idea behind the test is so much that ONLY women can appear in the story so much as it's aimed toward the idea that women can and should have active roles in the story as something other than an adoring plot point and/or motivation for the male characters in the story -- which I agree with wholeheartedly. The comic strip mentions that "Alien" passed the test because the two women in the story talked about the monster.
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Date: 2008-08-04 11:24 am (UTC)I don't think the idea behind the test is so much that ONLY women can appear in the story so much as it's aimed toward the idea that women can and should have active roles in the story as something other than an adoring plot point and/or motivation for the male characters in the story -- which I agree with wholeheartedly. The comic strip mentions that "Alien" passed the test because the two women in the story talked about the monster.