[ SECRET POST #2890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2890 ⌋

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Comments

[duaedesigns]

It's more trying to point out that women are 50% of the population. Having movies and shows that either don't have two named female characters or have them interact about anything but a guy should be silly and stupid and everyone laughing at how unrealistic it is. It should be guy in terrible rubber suit slowly swinging at Shatner levels of fake.

Instead it's accepted as ordinary story telling and that's weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah -- Bechdel never meant it as a major litmus test where if a work passes, hooray, it's feminist! (Or if a work doesn't pass, boo, it's sexist!) The entire point of it is to point out that it's a trivially low bar to pass -- and most media out there *still doesn't pass it*. It's a way to open your eyes to something that's so ubiquitous and pervasive that most of us don't even notice it.

[duaedesigns]

Yeah. Just like a lack of rubber suit monsters doesn't mean a movie is Oscar worthy, or that rubber suit monsters automatically mean a movie is terrible and unwatchable. It's just trying to point out exactly how many rubber monster suits there are in movies to the point they're accepted as normal and realistic.

But people get weirdly defensive of their rubber monster suits.