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The Bechdel Test is a test adapted from the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (it goes by other names, including the Mo Movie Measure, Bechdel's law and the Bechdel/Wallace Test). In the strip in question, one of the characters is talking about how she only goes to see movies if they meet the following criteria:
1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something besides a man.
Apparently, this has become something of a litmus test in certain circles for determining whether a movie, book, play, etc. has a non-sexist portrayal of women. Particularly, as Charlie Stross points out inhis blog about the test, you expand the last point to "about something besides men or marriage or babies"
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1. It has to have at least two women in it,
2. Who talk to each other,
3. About something besides a man.
Apparently, this has become something of a litmus test in certain circles for determining whether a movie, book, play, etc. has a non-sexist portrayal of women. Particularly, as Charlie Stross points out inhis blog about the test, you expand the last point to "about something besides men or marriage or babies"
( This way to the Teal Deer Enclosure )
