I was hooked from the moment she began with an Ursula Le Guin quote.
The test was never meant to be a metric for whether something is good or not. It’s meant to be a metric for representation of women in media.
The test is based on this 1985 comic from Alison Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For”:
With that history in mind, I don’t think the fact that lesbian porn passes is a shortfall of the test. The test was created by lesbians, after all.
The test was never meant to be a metric for whether something is good or not. It’s meant to be a metric for representation of women in media.
The test is based on this 1985 comic from Alison Bechdel’s “Dykes to Watch Out For”:
With that history in mind, I don’t think the fact that lesbian porn passes is a shortfall of the test. The test was created by lesbians, after all.