Does it pass the Bechdel Test? Yes

 

Power Structures enforcing Masculinity and Femininity

  • Masculinity
    • Stark bragging about not being the one to steal his items and telling Thompson to say a bunch of flashy things about him
  • Femininity
    • Dottie says things to Peggy about wanting to be like the girls like Peggy when she was young, but now that she is grown up she realizes that she can be anyone she wants to be and the men in her life would be none the wiser. 

 

Dottie Underwood’s Characteristics from the Bem Sex-Role inventory

  • Masculine
    • Ambitious, athletic, independent, self-reliant/sufficient, 
  • Feminine
    • Feminine, flatterable

 

Intertextual: Implies that you know how Captian America ends.

Shared by: Abby Kramer
Image Credit: Agent Carter, Season 1 Episode 8, 35:51