#bechdeltest

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Criminal Minds finally had a four women to three men ratio so they just added another guy like seriously is this a joke

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I've always found it hilarious when people (read: men) complain about the Bechdel Test, because the bar could literally not be any lower.

How many movies have you seen where there are two men who:

1. Have names

2. Talk to each other

3. Talk to each other about something other than men??

Thousands. Millions. And yet they act like women doing those same things is a revolutionary idea.

Btw, I know some movies don't pass the Reverse Bechdel Test, but let's be honest, how many of those are there compared to all the movies that don't pass the Bechdel Test?

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Bechdel test

What is the Bechdel test? It’s a way of assessing how often women are excluded from movies and how centered their roles are around men.

It originated in Alison Bechdels 1985 comic “Dykes to watch out for”. In the comic 2 women are having a conversation and one mentions her ‘rules’ for seeing a movie.

To pass the test a movie must:

Have two women

They must have a conversation

The conversation must be about something other than a man.

Despite the simplicity of the test, numerous major movies fail the test. This includes movies such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II, baywatch (but like are we surprised about that?), Deadpool 2 and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Although the Bechdel test does fail to measure other important issues and has problems of its own.

The test doesn’t assess the following:

If the women portrayed are complex characters or just serve as a catalyst for male stories. ie. getting pregnant, dying to set up a male protagonists story (American Assassin) or to cause problems for the male protagonist. It doesn’t asses how central and important the females role is towards the plot.

The diversity behind the scenes !! In 2016, the top 50 box office movies were examined and not one have a onset crew consisting of 50% women. (The closet to that number was Bad Moms). ‘The Conjuring 2’, which does pass the Bechdel test, had a 90% male onset crew. WOMEN BEHIND THE SCENES ARE IMPORTANT !!!!

It doesn’t take into account other marginalised groups. This is important because the women who are being portrayed are majority white, cisgender, heterosexual able bodied women. MORE DIVERSE REPRESENTATION PLEASE !!!!

So all in all the Bechdel test isnt really the most effective but it has triggered much needed conversations and the development of other tests. For example, the DuVernay test asses the representation of POC. To pass it, a film must have POC who have fully realised life’s instead of serve as scenery in a white story. Similarly, the Vito Russo test assess the LGBT+ representation. To pass it, a film must have an identifiably LGBT+ character that is not solely or predominantly defined by their sexual orientation or gender identity.

WE NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY HOLD THE FILM INDUSTRY ACCOUNTABLE !!!!

REPRESENTATION MATTERS !!!

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3' grezzi Ep. 688 Di cosa parlano le donne?

Nel film devono esserci almeno 2 donne, le donne devono parlare tra di loro e non devono parlare solo di uomini. Queste le 3 regole da rispettare per superare il test Bechdel. TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below] Il Bechdel test ci fa capire quanto importante sia la figura femminile all'interno di un film e, non lo sapevo, l'ho scoperto oggi, viene da un fumetto, un fumetto che è stato fatto dove due donne parlano e una dice all'altra "No, guarda, al cinema vengo solo se il film ha più di due personaggi femminili, se i personaggi femminili parlano tra di loro e se questi due personaggi femminili non parlano di uomini o comunque non solo di uomini". Queste sono le tre caratteristiche per vedere se un film supera il cosiddetto Bechdel test. Quindi la prossima volta che guardati un film a casa, al cinema o anche una serie televisiva osservate un po', quanti personaggi femminili ci sono? Osservate se sono personaggi che hanno anche delle frasi da pronunciare o se sono semplicemente lì per per fare bella figura, e anche se parlano questi personaggi, fate attenzione a capire che tipo di dialoghi hanno, se parlano solo di uomini oppure se parlano di cose anche esterne, non solo della loro femminilità, ma anche di cose pratiche e di quello che sanno fare, di cose tecniche, del loro lavoro, delle loro competenze, delle loro specialità. Il Bechdel test, ci sono dei siti che analizzano un sacco di film che per vedere se rispondono o meno a questi a questi criteri che ripeto sono facilissimi da adattare, però questo Bechdel test si può applicare anche ai videogiochi, perché sempre di più anche nei videogiochi le figure femminili o non ci sono per niente, oppure se esistono hanno dei ruoli ancillari, secondari e comunque non sono dei ruoli che danno molta importanza al gioco. So che esistono delle eccezioni, dico in linea di massima la maggioranza dei giochi. Non solo, ma sono state fatte delle ricerche, sapete che oggi nei videogiochi ci sono moltissimi dialoghi, quasi quanto in un libro, quasi quanto in un film, e una volta che si hanno dei dialoghi con alcuni personaggi, questi ne generano degli altri creano, esistono dei veri e propri diciamo alberi, ramificazioni di dialoghi, e hanno fatto queste ricerche e hanno scoperto che se si parla solo con i personaggi maschili si vince il gioco molto prima e con un punteggio molto più alto, se invece nei giochi che hanno sia personaggi maschili e femminili che parlano, parlando solo ed esclusivamente coi personaggi femminili, si finisce più tardi e con un punteggio molto più basso, quindi si invoglia chi gioca a interloquire solo con i personaggi maschili. Ecco, questo è un messaggio a chi mi ascolta e che fa videogiochi. Dateci personaggi femminili interessanti e che ci facciano vincere i giochi. TRANSLATION The Bechdel test makes us realize how important the female figure is within a movie and, I didn't know, I found out today, it comes from a comic book, a comic book that was made where two women talk and one says to the other, "No, look, I only come to the movies if the movie has more than two female characters, if the female characters talk to each other and if these two female characters don't talk about men or at least not only about men." These are the three characteristics to see if a film passes the so-called Bechdel test. So next time you watch a movie at home, at the cinema or even a TV series watch a little bit, how many female characters are there? Observe whether they are characters who also have phrases to speak or whether they are simply there to make themselves look good, and even if these characters speak, be careful to see what kind of dialogues they have, whether they talk only about men or whether they talk about external things as well, not only about their femininity, but also about practical things and what they can do, technical things, their work, their skills, their specialties. The Bechdel test, there are sites that analyze a lot of movies that to see whether or not they meet these to these criteria that I repeat are very easy to adapt, however this Bechdel test can also be applied to video games, because more and more even in video games the female figures are either not there at all , or if they do exist they have ancillary , secondary roles and in any case they are not roles that give much importance to the game. I know there are exceptions, I say in principle the majority of games. Not only that, but some research has been done, you know in video games today there is a lot of dialogue, almost as much as in a book, almost as much as in a movie, and once you have dialogue with some characters, they generate others create, there are real let's say trees , branches of dialogue, and they did this research and found that if you talk only with male characters you win the game much sooner and with a much higher score, if on the other hand in games that have both male and female characters talking, talking only and exclusively with female characters, you end up later and with a much lower score, so it entices the people who play the game to interject only with male characters. Here, this is a message to those who listen to me and who make video games. Give us interesting and game-winning female characters. LINK Rappresentazione delle donne nei videogiochi, ne parlano su ABC Radio National https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/gender-gaming-and-pop-culture/102960748

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'Bechdel Test'

More of this rubbish: 'By Mistake On Purpose' published in various backwaters of the Internet.

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