"Now, by limiting yourself to shows/movies that pass the test, you’d be cutting out a lot of otherwise-worthy entertainment; indeed, a fair number of top-notch works have legitimate reasons for including no women (e.g. ones set in a men’s prison, or on a WWII military submarine, or back when only men served on juriesnote ), or with no conversations at all, or having only one or two characters; hell, if its a romantic comedy, then it’s natural that the female characters would talk about men and romance – the male characters will likely only talk about women too. You may even be cutting out a lot of works that have feminist themes (it’s been revealed that Mulan, the quintessential Sweet Polly Oliver story and generally held up as one of the most feminist movies in the Disney Canon, failed - though with good reason, as she spends the majority of the movie as the sole woman in a male-only group of soldiers and the rest of the time being around women who are fixated on her wedding, something she was obviously uncomfortable with). But that’s the point; the majority of fiction created today, for whatever reason, seems to think women aren’t worth portraying except in relation to men. Things have changed since the test was first formulated (the strip in which it was originally suggested was written in 1985), but Hollywood still needs to be prodded to put in someone other than The Chick.”