Oh, I don't think it's a new excuse at all - but it is one way in which media producers and media viewers collude in excluding and ignoring female characters. I just think snowynight's distinction between "number of women on screen" and "number of women with agency" is a useful distinction in teasing out why people feel this way. It's not all on the viewers' side.
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Date: 2011-05-08 01:37 pm (UTC)