We Need More Badass Women: TV Bosses Tell Us Why The Bechdel Test Isn’t Enough

In 1985, an American cartoonist named Alison Bechdel inadvertently changed the way we talk about popular media via her seemingly innocuous comic strip, “Dykes to Watch Out For.” In the strip, a character based off Bechdel’s friend Liz Wallace voiced a seemingly simple, but unfortunately maddeningly difficult, idea: She refused to watch any movie that did not feature at least two female characters who spoke to each other about something besides a man. Read More…