The Bechdel Test

"Does a work of fiction feature at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

Very, very few pieces of modern entertainment and fiction pass this test. Why is that?
 Bechdel test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia »
All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. [...] And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. [...] They are now and then mothers and daughters.

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