The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it’s one that has firmly stuck in film parlance and criticism. Back in November there was a mini-furore over The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams very innocently noting that the original trilogy was Marketed towards boys, and his comments were taken out of context and impaled in some really dumb think pieces.

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