I just recently saw the stage play, and the women in it had a pretty non-baby-food-role in that they were singers and students. But they were subjugated a lot, by their skirts being chased and so forth.

I am a huge fan of Alison Bechdel and so the Bechdel rule is not at all new to me. But I had never considered before whether my favorite movie, Groundhog Day, passes it! Possibly because it does not, and I didn't want to face the truth. That movie is all about Bill Murray's character. In its defense, for him to progress he has to learn that one mustn't try to learn about a woman's interests solely to get into her pants, but because you can't actually love a person until you see them as a human being.