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…
We Need More Badass Women: TV Bosses Tell Us Why The Bechdel Test Isn’t Enough
March 31, 2015