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Launch Academy breakable toy project - the Bechdel Test, scraping bechdeltest.com, using Rails, Postgres, Javascript, and more. The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.

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The Bechdel Test

About the Bechdel Test

From Wikipedia: The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added. Many contemporary works fail this test of gender bias. On average, films that pass the test have been found to have a lower budget than others, but of comparable or better financial performance.

The test is named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. In 1985, she had a character in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For voice the idea, which she attributed to a friend, Liz Wallace. The test was originally conceived for evaluating films but has since been applied to other media. It is also known as the Bechdel/Wallace test, the Bechdel rule, Bechdel's law, or the Mo Movie Measure.

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Launch Academy breakable toy project - the Bechdel Test, scraping bechdeltest.com, using Rails, Postgres, Javascript, and more. The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.

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