She added: 'The movie was telling a story about queer AAPI men, whose experiences don't show up enough in movies or anywhere else'.
Rosin on Tuesday tweeted an apology, saying she realized the tweet was 'offensive' and 'careless and thoughtless'.'Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass,' she said.Even Alison Bechdel, 61, joined in, tweeting the film passed because she ruled there was a new category.The backlash was immediate, with many pointing that the film was not about women, and gay Asian men are significantly underrepresented on screen.'So #FireIslandMovie gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way,' she tweeted.She said that it failed the Bechdel Test - which requires at least two women, who talk to each other about something other than a man.Rosin on Monday tweeted criticism of the film Fire Island, which is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice, and tells the story of a group of gay Asian men.Queer author Hanna Rosin is forced to apologize for complaining that a new Hulu movie about gay Asian men vacationing on Fire Island doesn't feature enough women
