© 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press “‘More than anything, artists are men [sic] who want to become inhuman.’” —Apollinaire [1] Affordances It runs like this: First, a film has to contain two female characters; second, they have to talk to one other; third: they have to talk about something besides a man. Who today hasn’t heard of the Bechdel test? Having gone viral, it increasingly serves as a litmus test in class discussion for marking outsized gender bias in texts. The test provides a handy...