I remembering reading that and just being baffled. The Bechdel Test actually help me realize how little writers actually engaged in the activity of writing dialog for female characters that didn't centralize its focus on the male leads or character. It took a while to actually accept the idea that they really think that line of thinking scores them both and audience and a profit

Women talking about other things = "no profit" doesn't strike me as sound logic so much as does suits scared of thinking of female characters outside of the realm of a man's status within a narrative.

I remember really loving Lady Eboshi's character in Mononoke when I was a kid. Now that I'm older I understand the story and her effect on the events she participated in far better than I did when I simply watched it for the animation and wolves. But I don't ever remember really hating her in way I would have with a character like the Evil Queen in Snow White. Maybe because Miyazaki never promoted her as a singularly evil or good?