I’m not sure Das Boot would have been a stronger movie if it had “passed.”
The missed opportunities intrigue me. Apparently The Asphalt Jungle has four named female characters, and yet, they don’t interact at all.
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No one is saying that all films need to be cast entirely by women… we’re saying that plenty of films treat women as if they did not exist at all, and when they do, they are not even remotely fully formed human beings. And we wonder why some men believe it’s okay to beat the shit out of their partners or kill them… much of our pop culture treats women like two-dimensional children with no inner lives of their own, but merely there for the edification of men. 
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What!? You’re saying it’s a cutting joke about the lack of opportunities for women’s work in a functioning industry and not just some dumb noise about how smart men will now have to listen to women talk about their periods for ten minutes?
Is everything I read on the internet a lie?
/s
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The proportion of movies that barely pass the bechdel test, thanks perhaps to a snippet of awkwardly placed dialogue, implies that the test may be used to allocate capital.
The other way of passing the Bechdel test-- allocating the roles equally to men and women and riding the odds that two important characters in a dialogue would happen to be both women seems less common.
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yes
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