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== External links == |
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Revision as of 21:20, 1 September 2009
The Bechdel test or Bechdel/Wallace test was developed by Liz Wallace and became widely known after Alison Bechdel featured it in her comic Dykes to Watch Out For.
The Bechdel test is a test of female characterisation in movies. Passing the Bechdel test requires that:
- the movie [media] has at least two women characters;
- who talk to each other;
- about something other than a man.
Passing or failing the test is not an ironclad guarantee of well-rounded, feminist, characterisation but it is indicative of the problems of token women characters. A vast amount of geeky media fails the test.
Variants
Latoya Peterson has some drafts of a race version of the Bechdel test: racialicious.com Alaya Dawn Johnson posted the literal race version of the test and applied it to science fiction at The Angry Black Woman
External links
- DTWOF: The Blog: The Rule explaining the history of the rule and displaying the original comic.
- Dykes to Watch Out For on Wikipedia