The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work. That – my experiences and observations – are what I’m sharing in this series.
For those unfamiliar with it, the “Bechdel test” is named for the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. In one strip from her series “Dykes to Watch Out For“, a character described their 3 basic requirements to go see a movie. The movie had to have:
- At least two women, who…
- …talk to each other…
- …about something other than a guy…
The point is that an embarrassingly small number of movies (not to mention TV shows, books, comics, etc) can clear that fairly low bar.
Equally embarrassing are the number of so-called “community forums”...
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