Outside of the The police band not all cops are bastards shirt besides I will buy this niche queer-graphic-novel world, Bechdel is perhaps best known for the Bechdel Test, a measure of the representation of women onscreen and in print. (For a work to pass the test, two female characters must talk to each other about something other than a man.) When, on a recent call, I ask Bechdel what it’s like to be forever enshrined in feminist history thanks to her eponymous test, she laughs and responds, “I feel very pleased by it, but for a while I felt a bit befuddled. I never sat down and said, ‘This is going to be a thing,’ but I’ve come to accept it and even feel proud of it.”
Bechdel isn’t the The police band not all cops are bastards shirt besides I will buy this type of artist to believe her own hype, even when said hype is well warranted. When I ask how it feels to have created work that so many queer people identify with, she’s hesitant: “I went through a period of feeling very anxious about that, because many young people would tell me that my comic-strip characters were the first lesbians they’d met. I was like, Oh, my God, what am I telling these people? I should be more careful. I don’t feel that concern as much anymore, partly because there are hundreds and thousands of people writing about queer stuff. It’s just a much wider field these days.”
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