Bechdel Test Blog

[purpletigron]

http://thebechdeltest.blogspot.com/ Edit Started Jan 2009, on hiatus since Mar 2009.

"What is the Bechdel Test? What is this blog? Why am I reading this?
It's come to my attention that there are fewer and fewer films today that are passing the Bechdel test. What is the Bechdel test, you might ask? It's a joke-turned-theory from the feminist comic "Dykes to Watch Out For" by Allison Bechdel (actually created by her friend Liz Wallace), in which one of the characters alleges that the only way she will watch a movie is if:

1. It has at least two women,

2. Who talk to each other,

3. About something besides a man.

Upon reviewing the depths of the Internet, it seems that there is no archive of movies that pass the Bechdel test, or somewhere to evaluate films by the test's standards. Thus, the purpose of this blog. Tune in for (hopefully) in-depth movie, television, theatre and possibly even book reviews about women talking to each other about something other than a man.

Also, each one of these reviews comes with a major spoiler warning.

This blog updates every Monday and Wednesday, and occasionally on Fridays."

Comments

[the_magician]

I'm pretty sure Catwoman has Halle Berry and Sharon Stone talking to each other about how the other is about to die horribly :-) (probably by being forced to watch the film!)

I've seen so few films in the last couple of years, and I'm trying to avoid listing any of the "chick flicks" where women talk to each other about careers, shoes or family :-)

Kill Bill, might do, though there is a lot of talk about Bill of course ...