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[–] [email protected] 160 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The point of the bechdel test is that as a lesbian she has no interest in media in which men are the sole focus.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem being that was basically all media lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Yeah that’s how a joke from a lesbian lifestyle comic wound up a well known test for cultural dismissal of women in media