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Shameless: The Diversity Of Female Characters

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Additionally, it provides clear insight to how women guide one another through the world and we see this from the moment Fiona gets advice and recommendations from Gisella to when she brings it up to Veronica. This episode clearly shows just how female diversity is important because it is showing that female characters are real individuals who experience real things. Through the Bechdel test, it is evident that characters like Debbie, Gisella, Fiona, and Veronica really have the power to move the plot—especially in other episodes. In one of the final scenes, we have Ethel cleaning the oven as Veronica enters the kitchen. Throughout the episode, Ethel completes massive amounts of chores because it is what she like to do and in the last scene, we see Veronica wanting to do something nice for Ethel because she has been helping with everything around the house. Veronica tells Ethel to stop cleaning and offers her to make French toast. Once Ethel accepts her offer, Veronica tells her the story of how her mother …show more content…

The show Shameless successfully passes the Bechdel test and shows how female characters are fully formed human-beings who fight, laugh, struggle, make jokes, cry, and face challenges that have nothing to do with men. Presenting the female lead of Fiona, while having so many female characters highlights the importance of diversity because they all have a meaningful presence on screen. Using the episode “It’s Time to Kill the Turtle,” the conditions of the Bechdel test are achieved and female representation is present. The TV series Shameless depicts diversity by passing the Bechdel test and by representing female characters in a way that presents them as well-rounded

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