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The Inventor Of The "Bechdel Test" For Sexism Loves "Girls"
buzzfeed.com 3 weeks, 1 day agoIn an interview, cartoonist Alison Bechdel reveals she also watches “Sex and the City” on loop, and discusses how difficult it can be to write about her family. Via: workingauthor.com In a 1985 strip from Bechdel's long-running comic Dykes to Watch Out For one of her characters says she'll only watch a movie if it has at least two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. This was termed the "Bechdel test," and it's still frequently used to evaluate whether a movie is really
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A Mother Is A Story With Neither Beginning Nor End
slate.com 3 weeks, 1 day agoNext month, the Slate Audio Book Club will discuss Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?


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