OOTS #959 - The Discussion Thread

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So...is this a hint at future merchandise?

Edit: The Bechdel Test makes me want to write something horrifyingly, eye-gougingly sexist with a 100% Bechdel Test pass rate for every scene.

“You can have a feminist movie that doesn’t meet the criteria, and you can have a movie that meets the criteria and isn’t feminist. So, it’s not scientific or anything. It was meant as a joke, but I still think it’s a very useful joke… It’s a bit surprising what does and doesn’t pass.”—Alison Bechdel

So is Bandanna the first unambiguously gay named character in the comic?

I think one of the lawyers (Raul? Julio? My mind is ringing vague bells of a sterotypical Latino name) is gay.

Still, first obviously lesbian/bi named character is a pirate? A sympathetic pirate, but still...

Anne Bonny and Mary Read would like to have you over for tea and and a few words...

Actually, according to the best resource we have available on the test, most movies do pass. 56.78% pass all three tests.

OMG! Thank you so much for that! I love the trends over time graph. Woot!

I ship it.

Wayyyy ahead of you. Panel six. Ahem.

or a transexual

That would be Roy (for a time). Also two esses in transsexual.

Between this and some of your previous statements, I have to ask: is there something inherently wrong with escapism?

Not at all! I for one am happy to escape from pervasive heteronormativity for a while.