watch the Show How to Get Away with Murder on Netflix (“Pilot” episode) and respond to the following prompt: At the beginning of term, we discussed the Bechdel test as an expression of frustration with the derivative roles offered to women in most mainstream media. Yet as the video we watched then explains, it is not necessarily a measure of how feminist a text is. If we were to revise the Bechdel test today, in the light of #MeToo, what should it measure? What “rules” should inform our evaluation of media today and why?
