Quote Originally Posted by SowZ View Post
It's like most things in statistics. It isn't very useful for examining individuals, but is useful looking at populations. That one movie doesn't pass the Bechdel test isn't a point of judgement, it may have been a specific type of movie where it is man centric and that is fine.
But is it even useful for populations? It says nothing about the quality of the movies. What does it matter that women get more represented, if some of those movies do nothing to help them? How would you feel about other tests if they resulted in a lot of false positives?

But half of Hollywood movies don't even have two women talk to each other.
Is that wrong, though? What if you have a majority of female characters, but they all live in different parts of the world or in different time periods, and thus never meet? Or, on a similar note, what if every conversation they have involves a man, despite none of those conversations being romantic?