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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.

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The point of the bechdel test is that as a lesbian she has no interest in media in which men are the sole focus.

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Yeah that’s how a joke from a lesbian lifestyle comic wound up a well known test for cultural dismissal of women in media

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66 points

For convenience, here’s the link to the xkcd

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I thought the characters had to be named in the work itself to pass

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28 points

Actually the girl’s name is Freda, her mother calls her name when she escapes the raided village

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12 points

Test passed then!

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7 points

Lol is that legitimately the only time two female characters talk?

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15 points

Yep.
And since the scene wasn’t even scripted in the books, it looks like something Peter Jackson added on purpose to pass the test in the most comical way

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44 points

Its been a while since I read LotR but didn’t the entwives just fuck off to a different forest cause they got tired of dealing with the ents’ bullshit? And the ents are all like “we should go looking for them” “yes we should” and then they just don’t cause theyre too lazy. I’m pretty sure they even mention knowing exactly where the entwives went.

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So it’s implied that the entwives (if I remember correctly) live near the shire. They say the trees in the deeper parts move, and some even speak.

Of course, in the books, the shire is decimated and attacked, and similar to the other commenter I believe this is another example of the magic leaving the world of middle earth.

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11 points

The entwives were likely all burned by Sauron’s forces in the second age, it’s just part of the general trend of the world’s magic fading.

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They may have an idea where they went, but they have no idea if they’re still there.

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What happened to the entwives is legitimately a source of great debate and mystery to this day as Tolkien never provided a conclusive answer during his lifetime. On purpose, I might add, because people kept asking him, and he enjoyed keeping the answer to himself.

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This actually reminds me of MLP:FiM, there was a long running fan theory that Ponyville took place in a gated lesbian community due to there only being five males present in town for the longest time while everyone else was female. (Mr. Cake, Big Macintosh, Snips, Snails, and Spike.)

I think they started doing more equal gender representation in crowd shots after awhile if memory serves, but it’s been awhile.

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