For Chrissakes, the Bechdel Test was a one-note joke from the comic strip and should NOT be the grading scale for movie female characters. It offers no insight into how good the writing is or the quality of acting. STOP USING IT
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It's not a grade of quality; everyone I've ever seen refer to it understands that it's a marker for whether or not a movie even accomplishes the bare minimum.
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But it’s a bare minimum so superfluous that makes the entire test redundant. Movies like “Dunkirk” and “Moonlight” fail the test, yet “Cars 3” and “xXx2” pass? Why would anyone need to know that?
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Yeah how dare people desire to seek out movies with female characters that interact with female characters. How dare they. What nonsense.
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Yeah, because when I think of progressive feminism, my first thought goes to a Vin Diesel action flick where the women are treated like set design. Again, passed the test...
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Again, bare minimum. i.e. a starting block, and again, not a grade of quality. Most of all, certainly not something to get so upset over.
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I should probably clarify, I'm not THAT upset, the tone of my original reply may have come across a little too brash. It's really more of an eye roll, more or less. Have you heard of the "Mako Mori test"?
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I feel ya. And I have! I think it's another great litmus test. Alone it still doesn't mean the movie is going to be high quality or overall progressive, but it's another marker. If a movie passes both the Bechdel and the Mako Mori, even better.
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Maybe read the article.
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Who gives a shit. This is really what you think is important in today’s society?
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I think it’s important for little girls to grow up focusing on things other than boys (like their studies and devoloping their self worth). So I can see why this movie list would be of interest to parents of little girls or asexual women but maybe I’m in the minority.

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I’m gonna book a weekend at the ranch, and we can talk this over. Amongst other things...
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... "The Bechdel Test was originally inspired by a 1985 installment of Alison Bechdel's comic strip 'Dykes to Watch Out For' ... " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test …
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What? And the countless movies that portray every man as constantly thinking about sex & talking about it are what?
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The bechdel Test is bullshit and your movie suggestions are horse shit.
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I think fat childless 40 something women who blame all their problems on the world is a much more reasonable explanation.
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Paul, you're so sad
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Says the person whos opinion will never matter.
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You poor thing
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Enjoy being alone the rest of your life.
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