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Bechdel Test
The Bechdel test (also known as the Bechdel/Wallace test, the Bechdel rule, or Bechdel's law) is credited to Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace, and appears in a 1985 strip entitled "The Rule". One of the characters says that she only watches a movie if it satisfies the following requirements:
It has to have at least two women in it,
Who talk to each other,
About something other than a man. (Not limited to romantic relationships, for example two sisters talking about their father does not pass.)
A variant of the test, in which the two women must additionally be named characters, is also called the Mo ...more
It has to have at least two women in it,
Who talk to each other,
About something other than a man. (Not limited to romantic relationships, for example two sisters talking about their father does not pass.)
A variant of the test, in which the two women must additionally be named characters, is also called the Mo ...more
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Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyone, which was a feature she liked in heroes, although she wished Peter were a girl, or the villain were a girl, or someone in the book besides his boat and his girlfriend (both named Arabella) were a girl.
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― Small Spaces
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