There was a post going around recently about making song lyrics gender-neutral by replacing all gendered pronouns with "bear", leading to the amazing line:
"Bear was a bear, bear was a bear, can I make it any more obvious?"(Struggling to find the original post, but I think it's from this tumblr.)
I wanted to try this out, so I came up with a scheme to get hold of a corpus of film titles (always a useful thing to have!), and substitute "bear" for "boy" and "girl".
Turns out Wikipedia has a collection of lists of films, categorised by first letter. The URLs aren't entirely predictable - there's "J-K" and other groups to handle, but there's a handy table on each pge that can be used as a source. Once you've got the URLs, they're are easy to download using wget. Extracting the film titles can be done with some regex trickery after a bit of trial and error - there are lots of other links on the page, but only the film titles are italicised.
Once the links are extracted, there's a little data cleansing issue - the titles often contain disambiguation information in parentheses. This can be free text, e.g. "(manga)" or "(2006 Swedish film)", so it's difficult to distinguish this from part of the title, e.g. "Beyond (The Animatrix)". Looking through the data, it's fairly safe to remove any suffixed parantheses.
Having got hold of the film titles, it's a simple sed command to replace "boy" and "girl". You could worry about word boundaries here, to make sure that you're only replacing whole words, but like "bearfriend" and "cowbears", some of the funniest results are when they're not separate words.
One final thing to watch out for - 27 of the movie titles actually do contain "bear" (including several Care Bears movies, and a few spurious "beards"), so you need to separate out the titles which are going to be modified first, or it will be hard to distinguish these later.
The results worked out pretty well - I would definitely like to see "Bad Bears II" and "Cowbear Bebop: The Movie"! Here's the full list:
101 Rent Bears
4 Little Bears
5ive Bears
A Bear Named Charlie Brown
A Bear Named Sue
A Bear and a Dolphin
A Bear from Hunan
About a Bear
All the Bears Are Called Patrick
All the Bears Love Mandy Lane
All the Real Bears
American Bear: A Profile of Steven Prince
American Bear
American Bears
Assault Bears
Astro Bear
Attack on the Pin-Up Bears
Baby Bear
Bad Bear Bubby
Bad Bears II
Bad Bear
Bad Bears
Beastly Bearz
Beat Bear
Beautiful Bears
Bicycle Bear
Big Bears Don't Cry
Biker Bearz
Birthday Bear
Bear A
Bear Goes to Heaven
Bear, Bear
Bears
Bears and Bears
Bears Don't Cry
Bears' Night Out
Bears of the City
Bears on the Side
Bears Town
Bears Will Be Bears
Bearz n the Hood
Bubble Bear
Cabin Bear
Calendar Bears
Cannibal Bears
Career Bears
Chelsea Bears
City Bear
Cover Bear
Cowbear
Cowbear Bebop: The Movie
Cowbears & Aliens
Cuban Rebel Bears
Daddy's Little Bears
Dasepo Naughty Bears
DC Super Hero Bears: Hero of the Year
DC Super Hero Bears: Intergalactic Games
DC Super Hero Bears: Super Hero High
Devil Bear from Mars
Diary of a Lost Bear
Different for Bears
Dogtown and Z-Bears
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bear Bombs
Dragon Bears
Dreambears
Drugstore Cowbear
Drugstore bear
Earth Bears Are Easy
Elephant Bear
Even Cowbears Get the Blues
Every Bear Should Be Married
Factory Bear
Fanbears
Fat Bear
Fat Man and Little Bear
Five Bears
Flybears
Flying Bears
Follow Me, Bears!
For Colored Bears
Funny Bear
Gagambear
Georgy Bear
Ghosts of Bearfriends Past
Bear 6
Bear Happy
Bear in Gold Boots
Bear Most Likely
Bear on the Bridge
Bear Shy
Bear with a Pearl Earring
Bear, Interrupted
Bearfight
Bearfriend From Hell
Bearfriends
Bears Just Want to Have Fun
Bears Town
Bears und Panzer der Film
Bears Will Be Bears
Bears! Bears! Bears!
Golden Bear
Gone Bear
Good Bear!
Good Morning, Bears
Grandma's Bear
Gregory's Bear
Gregory's Two Bears
Hammerbear
Hellbear
Hellbear 2: The Golden Army
Hellbear: Blood and Iron
Hellbear: Sword of Storms
Hello, My Dolly Bearfriend
His Bear Friday
Inside the Bears
Invasion of the Bee Bears
Jersey Bears
Jersey Bear
Jewbear
Jimmy Neutron: Bear Genius
Julien Donkey-Bear
Just One of the Bears
Kiss the Bears
Kit Kittredge: An American Bear
Lars and the Real Bear
Lego DC Super Hero Bears: Brain Drain
Leningrad Cowbears Go America
Les Bears
Live Nude Bears
Lonesome Cowbears
Lost Bears: The Thirst
Lost Bears: The Tribe
Love That Bear
Mallbear
Marine Bear
Material Bears
Mean Bears
Midnight Cowbear
Modern Bear
Modern Bears
Mrs. Brown's Bears D'Movie
My Beautiful Bear, Mari
My Best Friend's Bear
My Bearfriend is Type B
My Bearfriend's Back
My Bear
My Bear 2
My Little Pony: Equestria Bears
My New Sassy Bear
My Sassy Bear
My Sassy Bear 2
My Scary Bear
My Super Ex-Bearfriend
New Waterford Bear
Nowhere Bear
Odd Bear Out
Oldbear
Once Upon a Bear
One Hundred Men and a Bear
Paperbears
Phat Bearz
PR Bears
Prayer of the Rollerbears
Queer Bears and Bears on the Shinkansen
Rally 'Round the Flag, Bears!
Reform School Bears
Resurrection of the Little Match Bear
Ride 'Em Cowbear
Riding in Cars with Bears
Riding in Vans with Bears
Run, Fatbear, Run
Samaritan Bear
Sex and the Single Bear
Shopbear
Show Bear
Showbear in Hollywood
Showbears
Sing Bear Sing
Soldier's Bear
Some Bears Do
Song For a Raggy Bear
Sonny Bear
Sorority Bears
Space Cowbears
Spy Bear
Steambear
Storm Bear
Stratosphere Bear
Suburban Bear
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Bear Ship
Superbear
Swamp Bear
Swing Bears
Tank Bear
Tell Them Willie Bear Is Here
The Adventures of Sharkbear and Lavabear in 3-D
The Bakery Bear of Monceau
The Bay Bear
The Bellbear
The Bellbear and the Playbears
The Bear and the Beast
The Bear in the Plastic Bubble
The Bear in the Striped Pajamas
The Bear Turns Man
The Bear Who Could Fly
The Bear Who Cried Werewolf
The Bears from Brazil
The Bears in Company C
The Bears in the Band
The Buffalo Bear
The Country Bear
The Cowbear Way
The Cowbears
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Bears
The Dead Bear
The Diary of a Teenage Bear
The Errand Bear
The Fabulous Baker Bears
The Flower Bear
The Geisha Bear
The Bear Can't Help It
The Bear from Monday
The Bear In The Park
The Bear in the Taxi
The Bear Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
The Bear Who Knew Too Much
The Bear Who Leapt Through Time
The Bear Who Played with Fire
The Bearfriend Experience
The Bears of Pleasure Island
The Good Bear
The Goodbye Bear
The Gore Gore Bears
The Harvey Bears
The History Bears
The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Bears in Love
The Jerky Bears: The Movie
The Last Bear Scout
The Little Bear Who Lives Down the Lane
The Lost 15 Bears: The Big Adventure on Pirates' Island
The Lost Bears
The Lost Bears (franchise)
The Machine Bear
The Match Factory Bear
The Nasty Bear
The Newton Bears
The Other Boleyn Bear
The Patchwork Bear of Oz
The Poor Little Rich Bear
The Prince and the Showbear
The Rise of a Tombear
The Sunshine Bears
The Trouble with Bears
The Waterbear
The Whoopee Bears
The Wog Bear
The Young Bears of Rochefort
There's a Bear in My Soup
This Bear's Life
This Bear's Life
Three Smart Bears
Tombear
Tommy Bear
Trailer Park Bears: The Movie
Two English Bears
Two Bears and a Guy
Uptown Bears
Urban Cowbear
Valley Bear
Waterbears
Weather Bear
Weaving Bear
What a Bear Wants
What's a Nice Bear Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
When Bears Fly
Where the Bears Are
Whitebearz
Why Bears Love Sailors
WiseBears
Wonder Bears
Working Bear
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Bear
You Are My Sassy Bear
You're a Big Bear Now
Zenon: Bear of the 21st Century
Ziegfeld Bear
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