Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Bechdel Test

I'm surprised it took me this long to hear about The Bechdel Test to measure if a movie is worth seeing. It's a three part test:

1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something besides a man

It came from this 1985 comic strip, The Rule written by Alison Bechdel. I saw it first in an Entertainment Weekly article written about here. And the Bechdel Test Movie List is a site where people rate if movies pass the test.

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