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« on: November 15, 2014, 10:32:43 AM »

While I don't think this is some kind of evil feminazi conspiracy!!, it is a misunderstanding of the Bechdel test. Whether an individual piece of work passes or fails the test  doesn't matter at all. Films  like Gravity and Zero Dark Thirty fail (despite being very "feminist"), while highly problematic works like Twilight or The Spice Girls Movie pass. The Bechdel test is a crude measuring tool that you can apply to large groups of film. If one movie fails it doesn't really matter, but if films consistently fail; it shows a worrying pattern.

That said people are making mountains of molehills here...
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 05:34:07 PM »

While I don't think this is some kind of evil feminazi conspiracy!!, it is a misunderstanding of the Bechdel test. Whether an individual piece of work passes or fails the test  doesn't matter at all. Films  like Gravity and Zero Dark Thirty fail (despite being very "feminist"), while highly problematic works like Twilight or The Spice Girls Movie pass. The Bechdel test is a crude measuring tool that you can apply to large groups of film. If one movie fails it doesn't really matter, but if films consistently fail; it shows a worrying pattern.

That said people are making mountains of molehills here...

     It's also worth noting that many movies have a very valid reason for not passing the Bechdel test. Through A Glass Darkly, to pick a Swedish example, has four characters, only one of whom is a woman. That it fails the Bechdel test is no comment whatsoever on its contents.

Exactly. Similarly, Gravity only has two characters; and Zero Dark Thirty fails as nearly all the dialogue is about one man in particular - Bin Laden.
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