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submitted 3 months ago by nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 160 points 3 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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 3 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.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem being that was basically all media lol

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 3 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