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Bechdel fails

2/23/2021

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Earlier today I took a picture of a stack of my movies that have much to offer female viewers and it got me thinking about the movies I own that do not even pass the Bechdel test—a test that serves as an indicator of the active presence of women in movies. Passing this test should be ridiculously easy. All a movie needs is to have two named female characters that speak to each other about something besides a male. And yet, tons of movies fail this test, including critically acclaimed films and huge box office hits—including the movies pictured below. If it does not strike you as odd that no two women speak in a two-hour movie ask yourself this: how many movies can you name in which no two men ever speak? This is just one of the dozens of things I report on in my upcoming film guide for women.

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    Canadian feminist and cinephile on the verge of publishing my film guide for women and my opus. My coffee table book about women,
    What is a Woman?,
    ​is now available at Blurb.ca.
    ​I have also posted some related movie clips on my YouTube channel (ACPicks), and you can follow me on Spinster: 
    @AllineCormier@spinster.xyz. I was locked out of Twitter 
    (​@AllineCormier) for five months before receiving an apology (alternate account: ACPicks1). 

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