#the bechdel test

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

I need everyone to know I had a dream last night about a Hannibal presentation and this was the whole presentation as it appeared in my dream

[trenchcoatimpala]

I'm so serious when I say Supernatural needs to conduct The Bechdel Test except it follows these steps:

Sam and Cas are featured

They talk to each other

They talk about something OTHER THAN DEAN

I am doing a Cas only episodes rewatch right now and I swear the only time these two have ever had a scene where they DONT talk about Dean is in First Born with the guinea pig thing and then some of the extracting grace thing.

I only started thinking about this two days ago and I'm on s11 in my rewatch now so I've probably missed other scenes. But so far, since I was at the end of s9 and through s10 to halfway through s11, I have been keeping tabs on this and THEY ONLY TALK ABOUT DEAN. It so fucking FUNNY actually beause they're literally like two friends in a group of three where whenever the one person who holds the group together leaves, they're both just there like: ummm, so... what do we talk about?? And the only thing they have in common is DEAN.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I use to enjoy watching Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt until I realized it didn't pass the Bechdel Test. Smh.

[ineffablebookgirl]

Nikolai asking Alina if she trusts David, and Alina turning to Nadia and saying, "You've known him the longest, what do you think?" Like, powerful men yielding power to powerful women? Women turning to women for support and expertise? Powerful people not assuming all the answers should come from themselves alone?

Added five years to my life.

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Does Rescue Bots passes the Bechdel Test????

[nosidekickspod]

[marlinspirkhall]

Unnamed Female Character A: You’re a boring, nerdy virgin

Unnamed Female Character B: *gasps* Well, you’re a slut, and you’re bad at maths

Audience Member: oh dope, I didn't know this movie passed the Bechdel test

[teartra]

Me and my girls passed the Bechdel test because the only men that we talked about were the government

[love-songs-for-emma]

(inspo.)

[chuckduckling]

It bugs me how the majority of films released each year have 1) two male characters 2) talk to each other about something 3) other than a woman, because the fact that men's lives don't 100% revolve around women 100% of the time is just naturally assumed. Nobody even notices.

And yet, even though it's historically proven difficult for even 50% of films released each year to pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test, that doesn't matter. We need to endlessly debate the need for the test, we need to endlessly debate whether it even matters at all.

Meanwhile, it will never matter for male characters, because of course most films will have two men talk about something other than a woman at least once during the film's runtime. Male characters don't have to revolve completely around female characters at all times in order to exist in the majority of narratives. That's already the status quo.

[rosewind2007]

Murderbot would fail

[axolotls4eva]

The Bechdel Test

So there is this test called the Bechdel Test. I’m not going to go full on into it but I thought I’d share abt it. The Bechdel test is a test on women’s representation in film. The rest includes three questions:

Are there more than two female characters?

Do they speak to eachother?

Do they talk about anything other than a man?

[narratively-complex-refuse-heap]

Worst part about being afab & trans was realizing my internal monologue doesn’t pass the bechdel test

[dedicatedblog]

Chicago Fire

Passed.

[acelessthan3]

I know it's a (good) joke that @shetheyslay was making on a post about gay sex, but like as a gay man it really is like that sometimes sitting on the sidelines of the Feminist Culture War™.

Like the Bechdel-Wallace Test is an occasionally useful tool for evaluating the treatment of women in media that's been bastardized into this be-all end-all litmus, but there are contexts and experiences where it's functionally useless. I'm reading about relationship anarchy and there have been several points where what I'm reading mentions resisting the heteropatriarchal subjegation of women within how relationships are formed and maintained and the roles we take therein, and I look around at my sexual and romantic relationships and those of my peers and go, what women tho?

Which isn't to say there isn't potential for misogyny (Lorde knows there's plenty of sexist gays out there), and relationship anarchy broadens the scope of relationships-worth-investigating in our care networks beyond just the romantic and sexual, so there's plenty of room for resisting the patriarchy when talking about how you relate to your friends or coworkers or public/media figures or your mom, but how much energy do I really need to invest in liberating myself from a phallocentric mindset (in romantic relationships specifically) when as a man in relationships with other men there are frequently no women involved?

Like there are people who unironically will hate on gay media because it doesn't feature enough women or w/e when like yes! Because this is a story about gay men! It was never meant to be a feminist critique. Please get out of our bedroom so we can continue with the gay sex!

And the people who don't get that are just like:

[jrrtolkiennerd]

Huh, The Two Towers is the only film of the original trilogy where two women interact with each other on screen.