This week, National Review ran an article by Kyle Smith called “If You Like Art, Don’t Take the Bechdel Test.” The Bechdel test, although nothing new, was the subject of the article’s scrutiny.

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If you want to find out if a movie can be considered “feminist,” a few simple rules apply — at least according to the Bechdel test. The feminist litmus test first appeared in namesake Allison ...

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A recent Twitter dustup called into question the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help gauge the representation of women in popular entertainment first put forth by Dykes to Watch ...

A tweet criticized the gay Asian rom-com for failing to adequately represent women. Now what? By Rebecca Sun Senior Editor, Diversity & Inclusion In 1985, cartoonist Alison Bechdel drew a sequence in ...