![]() ![]() The strip concludes with them leaving, as no movie meets their requirements. The film must include at least two women these two women must talk to each other and the conversation must center around something other than a man. In the Dykes to Watch Out For strip titled “The Rule,” two women contemplate which movie they should watch at the theater, based on a set of three simple rules. ![]() It was two years later, in this very comic strip, that the Bechdel test was born. Before that, Bechdel was most popular for her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a cheeky political comic which got its start in 1983 in the feminist newspaper WomaNews. Alison Bechdel is a queer cartoonist best known for her graphic memoir Fun Home, which soared to new heights of popularity when adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical in 2015. ![]()
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