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minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up160·4 months agoThe point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·4 months agoThe point of the bechdel test is that as a lesbian she has no interest in media in which men are the sole focus.
minus-squareSteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up67·edit-22 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·4 months agoYeah that’s how a joke from a lesbian lifestyle comic wound up a well known test for cultural dismissal of women in media
minus-squareMindTravellerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoIf I write a cyberpunk story where every character is nonbinary and binary gender is seen as old timey and pointless, do I fail the Bechdel test?
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoYes, but you fail with style
minus-squareRevan343linkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoHave you read 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson? Set in the future of the Martian Trilogy. Not cyberpunk, but gender is seen as old-timey
The point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.
The point of the bechdel test is that as a lesbian she has no interest in media in which men are the sole focus.
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Yeah that’s how a joke from a lesbian lifestyle comic wound up a well known test for cultural dismissal of women in media
If I write a cyberpunk story where every character is nonbinary and binary gender is seen as old timey and pointless, do I fail the Bechdel test?
Yes, but you fail with style
Have you read 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson? Set in the future of the Martian Trilogy.
Not cyberpunk, but gender is seen as old-timey