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The point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.
The point of the bechdel test is that as a lesbian she has no interest in media in which men are the sole focus.
Yeah that’s how a joke from a lesbian lifestyle comic wound up a well known test for cultural dismissal of women in media
There is no point. It was just a joke, and the original creator is annoyed at people treating it like a real thing, last I read.
American Pie 2 passes the Bechdel test. That's all you need to know about how much correlation that "test" has with a movie's relationship to its female characters, lol.