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Originally Posted by HarryT
And that's absolutely fair. That's entirely different to claiming that a book is "shockingly offensive" for the "crime" of having been written in a time when society was different to what it is today.
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Seeking clarity and common ground here: what the author (plus or minus editing) wrote was "However, groundbreaking 30, 40, 50 or 100 years ago can now seem horribly out of date and shockingly offensive." That's the only time "offensive" appears in the article. Headlines are not written by the authors of the articles, and are typically designed to be as clickbaity as possible.
I like it that she has applied the Bechdel-Wallace test as it is meant to be applied, to highlight the existence of gender imbalance in a collection of different works, rather than as a single 'litmus test' to decide whether a single work is or isn't sexist.