Frank Miller test

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It began [http://aaru-tuesday.blogspot.com/2007/10/1958.html here]. It refers to the original [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test Miller Test] and also to the [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20060207.html Shortpacked] take on [[Frank Miller]]. It is applied to male sci-fi and fantasy writers, and it goes like this:

;If the proportion of female sex workers to neutrally presented female people in his story is above <nowiki>1:1</nowiki>, he fails.

Failure is an indication that the writer is suffering from a debilitating obsession with whores, and may be assuming that all women can be represented by sex workers.

== Notable Failures ==
* [[Frank Miller]] - ''[[Sin City]]''
* [[CS Lewis]] - ''[[Ministering Angels]]''
* [[China Mieville]] - ''[[Iron Council]]'' / ''[[The Perpetual Train]]'' - Arguably intentional in order to show prostitutes organizing.

==Arguable failures==
* [[Terry Pratchett]] - ''[[Night Watch]]'' - Includes one confirmed sex-worker ([[Rosie Palm]]); one probable sex-worker (Madam); non-sex-workers (Sandra, [[Cherry Littlebottom]], [[Sybil Vimes]). The agony Aunts are involved but are not themselves prostitutes, and other tertiary characters do not necessarily appear to be involved with prostitution. However, since ''[[Night Watch]]'' is something of a pastiche of ''[[Les Miserables]]'' (in which prostitution plays a visible and plot relevant part), the presence of sex workers as characters is arguably not an entirely bad sign.

== See also ==
* [[Prostitution]]
* [[List of female sex workers in SF]]
* [[OH JOHN RINGO NO]]

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[[Category:Evaluation tools]]
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