Movie Pitches That Hollywood Studio Execs Think Are Feminist

But do they pass the Bechdel Test???

• A period piece where a diplomat’s wife brings peace to two warring nations by combining their favorite dishes into one great casserole.
• Two white lesbians fall in and out of love while being casually racist to their ambiguously ethnic friends.
• A chemist’s wife accidentally helps him make a scientific breakthrough while cooking him dinner even though she also has a full-time job.
• A doctor, a lawyer and a priest walk into a bar, and they’re all women.
• A James Bond remake in which Bond is named Jamie and she likes her salads shaken, not stirred.
• A woman writes brilliant novels under a female pseudonym and everyone thinks she is a man. After her publisher tragically dies, she has to prove she really wrote the books by writing one in front of a bunch of male authoritative figures.
• Women realize their beauty comes from within, but also that the only thing that matters in their life is that they think they’re beautiful.
• An ambitious female creative director develops a revolutionary ad campaign that helps society learn to accept and objectify all types of women.
• A supportive wife has a character arc.
• A woman keeps her lady-mustache as a power move. (The entire movie is people reacting in various comical ways to this.)
• An elderly woman shakes things up after her husband dies by dating his younger second wife.
• 12 Angry Women.

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