When Sally Met Harry

Published May 25, 2018 3:18am ET



Hollywood is notorious for taking certain ideas to unpleasant extremes: CGI in Star Wars movies, saccharine romantic comedy tropes, the Fast and Furious franchise. But in our current #MeToo moment, activists intent on remaking the world in a more female-friendly image have gone beyond outing harassers and found a new villain: screenplays.

As the New York Times reports, activists have created “new screenplay software that can automatically tell whether a script is equitable for men and women.” The software counts the number of male and female characters and analyzes dialogue to determine whether women or men speak more often, regardless of the storyline or setting.

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