The Bechtel Test: A Media Metric for Intersectional Feminism

Jamie Loftus and Caitlyn Deronté discuss the Bechtel test, a media metric created by queer cartoonist Allison Bechtel in her comic collection called Thanks to Watch Out For. The one we use requires that there be two characters of a marginalized gender with names who speak to each other about something other than a man for two lines of dialogue. And I do feel like Stitch's Mail coded that this includes Stitch. We say it every single week for seven years, but it's like someday it's really going to take for both of us.