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FactoidCow Since: Oct, 2012
5th Feb, 2019 10:16:31 PM

Well, we know it's not Improbably Female Cast, because that's about "when a work's cast almost entirely consists of women in a situation where this would be unusual", and in this case the situation entirely justifies it. It's not Chromosome Casting either, because you said the men have a significant role. I guess the closest trope would be The One Guy? Except there is more than one guy, and you didn't actually say if they're on the women's "team" or not. If there were two guys, you would have an inversion of Two Girls to a Team...

To be honest, I think this might be getting into People Sit on Chairs territory. The creators chose to tell a Ripped from the Headlines story about a Women's March, and the gender of the characters incidentally follows from that. It's not like they deliberately constructed a story with a 21:5 gender ratio.

But wait - I've been implicitly assuming that all 28 of these actors have roles of equal importance. Possible, but not very likely. I mean, an Ensemble Cast is one thing, but 28 is too many people to follow. Frankly, I doubt you can have a female-centric work with five men who are all integral to the plot but not antagonists. So if we can define a main cast, we might have a better shot at finding a trope that fits.

Incidentally, this work will certainly pass The Bechdel Test.

Edited by FactoidCow
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
6th Feb, 2019 09:33:02 AM

Incidentally, this work will certainly pass The Bechdel Test.
It would be possible to direct a 2-hour movie with a 23:5 f:m ratio and still fail to have the female characters talk about non-male subjects unless they're speaking to a male character. It's maddening the way stories keep failing a simple rule.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
FactoidCow Since: Oct, 2012
6th Feb, 2019 11:16:55 PM

@crazysamaritan: Well, in this specific case, we've established that the main plot is women organizing a Women's March. With that setup, you would have to be deliberately trying to fail the Test.

Edited by FactoidCow
Merseyuser1 Since: Sep, 2011
7th Feb, 2019 02:06:33 AM

Thank you. I didn't know this would fit as People Sit On Chairs though, to be fair.

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