The Bechdel Test

[ritaxis]

I also have been thinking aboutnthe Bechdel test for a long time.  This is the test: are there two (named) female characters?  Do they talk to each other? About something other than a man?

But I don't pass it all the time. Or hardly ever, because of the tight-third single male protagonist and few other characters issue.  And why do I write that way

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[beth_bernobich]

It makes me wonder about what I'm writing about, and what I want to be writing about.

That right there is why I think the test is a useful exercise.