Image: Alison Bechdel
Nobody likes a test on a Monday,
but we reckon you need to do this one.
Think of your favourite movie:
1.
Does it have
at least two women in it?
2.
Do they talk
to each other?
3.
If so, do
they talk about something besides a man?
Scary, isn’t it?
The Bechdel test was popularized by Alison
Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch
Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. We think it’s pretty alarming how few films pass the test,
from the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, to The Social Network and The
Artist.
