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"Instead, her name was used by some do-nothing journalist to spark a facile conversation about a metric for determining the feminist "credentials" of a tv show or movie, based on something derived from a single joke spoken by a character in a single comic strip."
"I don't want to read multiple paragraphs about your boyfriend's overly sensitive nympho roommate who won't watch a movie that doesn't pass the Bechdel test."
"There is no Beschdel test for men because the thought of being with a women is the underlying reason behind everything they do."
"So I sat down and thought to myself 'what do these people want? What do *they* think will sell?' So I wrote the most explicitly feminist, Bechdel test passing script about a down on her luck vagabond chemistry PHD killing a town of vampires, and within a year, I sold it."
"Watched Le Cercle Rouge last night and not a single woman spoke in the whole 2.5 hr run time. There were several scantily clad waitresses & dancers & a naked mistress but none of them spoke. So, anyone know of other movies in which only men speak? Bonus points if there are also titties in it."
"In a surreal inversion of the 'Bechdel test', which measures the empowerment quotient of a given piece of media based on how many times female characters talk about something other than dating men, there is almost no scene in 'Dickinson' that is not about gender roles or girl power or whatever."