The Bechdel test for Women in Movies - it takes about 2 min and fascinated and enlightened me

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42. This is really interesting

And I think people are not getting it. It isn't about whether the movies are supportive of women, or whether a movie is negative toward women. It just asks if women are really present (more than one and full characters with names) and whether they serve some purpose other than in relationship to men - whether they have a reason to talk to each other, and about something else.

It seems to be looking more for whether women are really present in the movies in a meaningful way, and whether their purpose is for reasons other than their relationships with men.

And yeah, in romantic movies the men talk about women too. But not necessarily just about women. And that's the only genre of movie where it seems like men would spend much time talking about their relationships. Whereas with women, they're finding that if there are two of them in a movie, they almost never talk to each other unless they are talking about men.

I don't think it's as much an an indictment as pointing out a blind spot. I was blind to this as well.