The Bechdel test was "intended" as a joke. Hey, here's a link to the original comic that you've clearly never bothered to read:

I've no idea, and you won't find me arguing that the film industry isn't sexist, just that the Bechdel test is a lousy way to measure that. There are loads of films with strong female lead characters that fail the Bechdel test, and loads of brazenly sexist films which pass it.

The 'Bechdel test' is a meaningless gimmick made up for a comic strip by a woman who freely admits it's just a joke. It's not an accurate barometer of sexism in film.

In fairness, I'd have said Salo was more kitsch than cheesy.

What's vague is her definition of the word "constantly". Does it mean every night? Or a dozen times every night? Or something inbetween? That she's 20 has absolutely nothing to do with it. I've known 20 year olds so cosseted they'd never drank so much as an alcopop in their lives, and equated smoking a joint with…

Well at least have the grace to be sorry about the piss-poor job you're doing.

Also, how on earth are you supposed to know if you don't like something until you've finished it?

And you're wasting perfectly good pixels that could be put to better use animating a snuff movie. Shut up!

You're wasting perfectly good pixels that could be put to better use animating a snuff movie. Shut up.

Yeah. It does have a disturbingly Bloefeldian ring to it, doesn't it :-)

FYI, Cobra is actually a real organisation. It's an acronym for Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR, so phonetically "Cobra") and it's where the UK Government meets to plan responses to national emergencies like floods or chocolate biscuit shortages.

Actually, she didn't even care about those since she just overruled them when the vote didn't go her way.

I totally stared at that picture for about three minutes thinking "Why have they used a picture of Xander instead of Spike?"