A tweet criticized the gay Asian rom-com FireIsland for failing to adequately represent women. Now what?
that depicted a pair of women walking by a movie theater. “I have this rule,” one says. “I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements: One, it has to have at least two women in it who, two, talk to each other about, three, something besides a man.” The punchline is that under those standards, the last film she was able to see wasThe Bechdel test, as the three rules came to be known, has since entered the cultural vernacular as an earnest gauge of gender representation in media.
aiming to account for inclusion behind the scenes as well as intersectionally, sometimes getting extremely granular about stereotypes and tropes in depictions involving women .
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