you have failed to acknowledge the multiple people in this thread who have actually outright explained to you what it is and why they think it's useful
Ohh really?
The Bechdel test doesn't claim any given movie is sexist. It demonstrates that the movie industry in general is sexist, by showing a trend too large to be coincidence.
This is what you are referring to?
The thing that explains nothing so I don't have to acknowledge this?
Or the statement that "it is so easy to pass"
Which is a statement which explains nothing once again. It is only a statement that a movie or tv show can fulfill an arbitrary set of conditions but not why those conditions?
As well my counter point was that there is no way you can use such a system wholesale as a Geiger counter. No matter how far back you sit. As in "You cannot use it to analyze larger trends". Since ultimately it isn't an analytical tool.
But you keep arguing against your straw men.
Why?
Yes... Why would I argue the straw man? Dear ohh my... Ohh wait that is right
Because I am arguing the straw man.
My entire point was that the supplementing of the Bechdel test shows more of its poor use then of its genuine desire to be supplemented.
I even further supported that idea by the fact that the Bechdel Test actually relies on the ability to think and analyze the information you get back to be useful, as well as looking closer at your subjects anyway.
I could have even went further and spoken about what instigated the entire affair (Pacific Rim) when really these elements existed far before that.
In other words the prime mover of any supplement is not academia.