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The Bechdel Test: It's Not About Passing.Yeah. This. I'm getting really tired of going round and round parsing whether a movie scrapes out a "technical pass" of the Bechdel Test while the spirit of the test and the broader sociological point it's making is completely ignored ( Read more... )

When you're cutting someone else's hair, don't go on about how much it sucks to be mistaken for a lesbian. And when your client says she doesn't mind so much, personally, being a lesbian and all, don't say, "Oh don't get me wrong, I've dated women before. But I just need to be the girl in a relationship. And besides, women are crazy." You just ( Read more... )