YMMV / Dykes to Watch Out For

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • A 1988 strip has Mo refusing to get out of bed "until the Electoral College is abolished and George Bush is impeached!" Bush Sr's son George W. Bush would have an even closer run-in with the Electoral College.
  • 1996: Some of the comments made by Sydney and Mo about Pat Buchanan (that he's a lunatic who has no chance of winning, that his unpredictability keeps the Republicans off-base, whether he's a populist or a racist, that he's riding a wave of white supremacist voters, that he'll sneak into the Presidency if he's not taken seriously and if Republican voters don't compromise and vote for [Bill] Clinton) sound eerily similar to future comments made about Donald Trump in 2016.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • James nicknames his sister's girlfriend, Sheila, She-Ra. Nearly three decades later and the reboot would make the actual She-Ra a lesbian. ^note  Furthering that parallel, that reboot actually got the derisive nickname "Dyke-ra" amongst people who thought the amount of LGBT relationships was just too big.
  • One '87 strip leading up to the group participating in a Pride March has them greeted by two cowboys, who they mistake for homophobes but discover are a couple, several years before Brokeback Mountain popularized the image of gay cowboys in the mainstream.
• Misaimed Fandom: People will sometimes say a movie is good and feminist because it passes The Bechdel Test or bad and sexist because it does not. However, Bechdel herself never intended it to be used that way. The point of the test was to attack Hollywood for not making very many films that would pass the test, rather than condemn individual movies for failing or praise individual movies for passing.
  • Adding to that, the intention of it was also to highlight how difficult it is for lesbians to connect with film characters, since, if a film fails the test, then it shows that a film either has no women in it, or that the only women there are - explicitly (as in, the female characters talk to each other, but ONLY about men) or implicitly (the women never speak to each other) - heterosexual. A lot of people, assuming that the test was about how feminist a film was, started criticising the test because "lmao does this mean that lesbian porn can pass the test??", ignoring that, if a function of the test is to see if there's the potential for lesbian characters in a film, then lesbian porn would obviously pass.