Having it appear as a rating alongside all movies available at the cinema would create awareness of the issue. Particularly if you look up at the board and see zero movies that pass...

It doesn't measure the 'quality' of female characters, just their participation in the story. If a movie passes the test that doesn't necessarily mean that the movie represents female characters well. But when so many movies fail the test, that does let us know that the industry has a problem.

He may not be very human any more, but he's definitely still a male character. Ultimately the main character, main enemy and main mentor are all male, so it's not surprising that it doesn't pass the test.

It is black and white that making rape threats isn't justified, in any circumstance. A guy dressed in the same costume would probably receive the same amount of legitimate criticism, but not the rape threats. The people making rape and death threats are probably just arseholes who have picked a 'sanctioned' target -…

Some do, which is why you have seen it. But as many people have pointed out, not all babies will do it, and not everyone is willing to take the risk that introducing the bottle ends breastfeeding (which is common).

I think the point was that in some contexts being attractive is an advantage (or necessity), but in other contexts it is a disadvantage. Overall there are more advantages for being attractive, but, when women are judged based on their looks, most women lose one way or another.

The class warfare is against the people who get left behind with failing schools.

They would have known about the effects of castration on people and livestock.

I think it can still be termed rape without having to assign adult responsibility to one of the children. I don't understand treating children as adults because they have done something awful. They are still children. Being a child doesn't diminish the severity or impact of the crime, but it does diminish…

Certainly there are differences in how language is used between countries. My point is that this case cannot be explained away as just a 'normal' Australian thing. If it was considered normal here you would have lots of Australians telling you to get over it. Instead there are a lot of Australians commenting here…

I don't understand. Are you saying that Australian's who have posted so far haven't lived in Australia???

Another Australian here. It really isn't a monoculture, and talking to your kids like that is not standard behaviour, although it certainly does happen. I would be surprised to hear one of my friends say something like this to their kids.

Does it say anywhere that the kid was 12? I had assumed a group of teenagers who had been caught sleeping over at the house of an older guy would be around mid-teens.

Good point. The fact they offered may suggest they could afford it (or they are super polite).

I think it's also appropriate to consider their relative wealth. If you invite someone into your house full of expensive things, when they themselves don't have much money, it doesn't seem right to expect them to fully compensate you if they break something by accident. You could put someone behind on their rent for…

I don't think it's natural or inevitable, it's just that racism is very good at self-perpetuating once it is established because the people who benefit from it have the power to continue it.

I don't get this. Noticing how many guys are clueless about gender problems made me very aware that I am clueless about race problems. It seems absurd that people wouldn't understand that, yet it happens all the time.

Has anyone else noticed that so far all of the people in the gifs posted on this discussion are white?

Power can also mean having power over yourself (rather than being dominated by others). It doesn't necessarily imply a desire to dominate others.

This very disturbing article includes some cases that were originally ruled suicides or accidents which are now believed to be murders. It is too easy to get away with. Trigger Warning: hate crimes.