Actually spelled Bechdel test. Has anyone ever heard of it?


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I raise my Hand and say a "Big Noooooooo".
Is this test for connecting Two Hearts together ??
Tell me Plzz If anyone Knows it..

I only heard about it today. Anywho, sleep calls. May post more when next on...if I can find my threads

''passing or failing test is not necessarily an indication of how well women are represented in any specific work''

Ok.

Since the test is only geared toward
fictional movies and television...
Seems any results would be fictional
as well.

Bechdel does NOT take into account
fact based shows / true stories.

Nobody said it did. Always quick to criticise anything I post. Bless

The Bechdel test is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added.
The test is used as an indicator for the active presence of women in the entire field of film and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction. Media industry studies indicate that films that pass the test perform better financially than those that do not.

The test is named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For the test first appeared. Bechdel credited the idea to her friend Liz Wallace and the writings of Virginia Woolf. After the test became more widely discussed in the 2000s, a number of variants and tests inspired by it emerged.

Gender portrayal in popular fiction...

In her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf observed about the literature of her time what the Bechdel test would later highlight in more recent fiction.

'All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. ... And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. ... They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that?'

Food for thought.

You're right. But, your original post
left it unexplained. As if, there is
no separation of fiction from fact.

If I had offered criticism, my words
would have been much sharper.
Everyone knows that.

Have a nice day!

Double post

Thank you. I am not here much anymore. You know why. I apologised, but still am targeted. But I appreciate your interest in the topic. Bless.

Have a nice day.