[ SECRET POST #2823 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2823 ⌋

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Comments

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The Bechdel test only tests for one VERY SPECIFIC form of sexism. Japanese anime tends to have more female characters in general, but there's a lot of female character-heavy genres that are specifically made to be geared toward men (harem, "moe" slice-of-life, ecchi, etc), and while those shows don't HAVE to be sexist a lot of them tend to have at least of undercurrent of sexism.

Plus, remember that the Bechdel test was made for movies, and a lot of anime consumed in the west is TV shows, which have a LOT more time to give even minor characters some dialogue that doesn't have to drive the plot home. Maybe two female characters have a discussion that doesn't have to do with a man in one episode, but that doesn't mean the other 10-25 episodes feature something like that.

I don't really know if anime or western media is better at portraying women, but I don't think the Bechdel test is necessarily a good measure of that.

[(Anonymous)]

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