#bechdel test

[makesomenoise]

Bechdel test...failed 🚫

[drag-tween]

Alison Bechdel: ‘The Bechdel test was a joke... I didn’t intend for it to become a real gauge’

The US graphic novelist on having her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, turned into an audio series, growing up in a funeral home, and her famous women-in-film test

@autostraddle

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Yaoi is like if Yuri failed the Bechdel Test

[cdigoddess]

passing the bechamel test

[anarchic-miscellany]

There are two separate camps in film, both of which I have been a part of, celebrating greatness. I am immensely proud to report that "Mortal Kombat 2" firmly lands in both camps. Camp 1: 1. It passes the Bechdel Test. 2. It understands the material it is adapting, with a consistent tone and aesthetic down to a side-on match-up and ludicrous gibs. 3. The characters have parallel arcs in the form of Johnny Cage and Kitana, as well as matching, competent edits at the ending sequence. 4. It features themes of redemption and growth. 5. Hiroyuki Sanada is such an incredibly classy act that he delivers the line "I am Hanzo Hasashi. Hell bends to my will." With such power and gravitas that it actually works despite it being a "Mortal Kombat" line in his second fucking language. 6. Tadanobu Asano is such an incredibly classy act that he delivers the exchage: "You should be dead!" "You should be RUNNING!" with such power and gravitas that it actually works despite it being a "Mortal Kombat" line in his second fucking language. Camp 2: 1. Karl Urban teams up with a laser Australian to break into hell, where they must enlist Japanese Ghost Dad to steal an amulet, so that they may essentially turn off "Cheat Mode" for the villains; so that a non-sexualised lesbian may kill God.

[beardedmrbean]

[femme-4-butches]

Alison Bechdel, by M. Sharkey for Out Magazine, New York City, December 2012/January 2013.

[trek-tracks]

Star Trek-related media test called the Bonesdel Test about whether Bones is actually a character in this story or is just standing adjacent to/being a caretaker of/serving as an antagonist for Spirk*

*Note that the Bechdel test is a joke about the bare minimum and not actually intended to be a measure of a quality female character. Note too that female characters should also have full and complete characterization. Please do not take the Bonesdel Test if you are allergic to any of its components. Side effects may include frustration at incomplete storytelling or mischaracterization.