Frank Miller test

It began here. It refers to the original Miller Test and also to the 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 1:1, 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); three 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.

See also

• Prostitution
• List of female sex workers in SF
• OH JOHN RINGO NO

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