Self-published Media Are Really Critical. It's So

Bechdel Test, Was Named For The Comic Strip It Came From, Penned By Alison Bechdel - But Bechdel Credits A Friend Named Liz Wallace, So Maybe It Really Should Be Called The Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, The Test Is Much Simpler Than The Name. To Pass It Your Movie Must Have The Following: A) There Are At Least Two Named Female Characters, Who B) Talk To Each Other About C) Something Other Than A Man.

In A Narcissistic Cathexis, You Invest More Energy Into Your Ideas About Another Person Than In The Actual, Objective, External Person. So The Man Who Falls In Love With Beauty Is Quite Different From The Man Who Loves A Girl And Feels She Is Beautiful And Can See What Is Beautiful About Her.

I Never Really Read Superhero Stuff As A Kid.

And Partly, The Worst Thing You Could Do In My Family Was Need Something From Someone. So Physical Strength Represented An Avenue Of Self-sufficiency To Me.

It Was A Vicious Cycle, Though. The More Gratification We Found In Our Own Geniuses, The More Isolated We Grew.