The origins of the Bechdel test

Are Hollywood and Broadway the last bastions of sexism? The Bechdel test asks whether a play, motion picture, or TV show features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Although this now-iconic litmus test began as a joke (see screenshots below), it is still rather remarkable how many–or should I say how few?–theatrical and cinematic productions are able to pass it.

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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