Lauren Ipsum

@Jay Your tests sound reasonable and worth considering. I'd rather have rounded women who happen not to interact (Black Widow, Gamora, Shuri) than cardboard women who have a long conversation about their manicures and then get fridged to provide manpain which kicks off the plot. The second example may pass the Bechdel test, but it's not a story I'm interested in.

@jay If there are so few scenes between two women that a specific scene has to be parsed to figure out "are they talking about the men, or the job the men are doing?" then it's likely that work has failed. It's simply not that complicated. Are two named women talking about something (a hobby, politics, religion, cooking, cats, their phones, their kids, Girl Scouts, the linoleum) that does. not. involve. a. male. character? And again: passing or failing doesn't make the work GOOD. It doesn't even make the FEMALE CHARACTERS good. It's just an analytical lens.

@jay if two female characters are lawyers and discuss how to get their client acquitted, and the client is a man, and if the client were female no plot points would change, I would not consider the client's gender to be relevant. I would say that exchange passes the test in spirit. But I think Amadeus is right: It's not about carefully parsing pronouns. It's about an entire attitude towards gender and stereotypes.

@Rasdashan and don't be heterocentric or cis-centric either — "wife" doesn't require "husband." She could be married to another woman. Or someone genderfluid, nonbinary, or agender.

Related, not duplicates: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/5777/… and graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/56846/…

@LateralTerminal AUGH! really? I didn't know 101 was still burned into the zeitgeist like that. damn. what's an entry-level class called in British schools?

okay I really have to go now, but this was a good discussion. I hope the proposal succeeds :)

your grandmother's pyrex is indestructible, that kind of thing

older pyrex is great

it used to be, but i think they were purchased by another company which cheapened the ingredient mix

the newer pyrex can shatter in your oven too, which is bullshit

yup

the steam will take your cheeks right off

it still has a "lid" and you still want to be careful taking it off if there's hot liquid in there

got it

for my biscuits, yes

peanuts

Ice, maybe

I forget what I was chopping

untill i smoked the motor

my regular blender did that with a mason jar

I really have to work at chopping my fingers off with that

I'll stick with my cuisinart

yipe!

SPLAT

whoops

SPLAT

yeah, I'd fuck that up constantly

oh, you have to turn the entire thing upside down

how do you not have food spill when you're going to blend it?

it looks like Tom Servo

what the fuck even is that

dude, have you ever blended hot soup with a loose lid? sure-fire route to getting your face scalded

always keep the lid on, particularly when blending hot liquids like soup

but good start!

I'll post an enthusiastic yes later on today; I'm really supposed to be working now :P

edited a skosh, still reading...

If we don't call it GD101, we could call it Scott Stack Exchange, since he can pretty much answer every single question by himself :D

I wonder if that will affect our site stats, for questions answered/closed/etc.

Now I want a "noob" flag so I can go down the list: noob noob noob noob noob noob :D

it really ain't hard to pick them out. throw a bunch of darts and you'll hit them

to quote Steve Trevor's grandfather, we can do something, or nothing, and we've already tried nothing

that's fine; debates might draw superusers like Yisela back in

I just want to get the vast majority of the My Adobe Be Broke and Tutorial on Demand questions off our front page

I'm sure there will be many spirited debates about borderline cases, but that's okay

the community, obvs

we apparently will need more discussion on the scope, though, since WELZ is seeing it as just tutorials and I'm looking at all noob stuff

less mean than "Beginners," probably

but it doesn't hurt to invite other suggestions

I think GD101 is pretty solid