A Favorite In Waiting: Alison Bechdel's 'Dykes To Watch Out For'

You can never tell what's going to hit — or when. Back in 1985, when Alison Bechdel first proposed a formula that women could use to pick movies, she couldn't have imagined she'd be known for the "Bechdel Test" three decades later. For that matter, she probably didn't imagine people would use something called the Internet to argue about it. The test, which asks that a movie feature at least two women who Kyle Smith it "a meaningless way to measure whether movies pass the feminist litmus test."