Bechdel testnoun [ S ]
/ˈbek.dəl ˌtest//ˈbek.dəl ˌtest/the Bechdel test
a way of judging whether a film, book, etc. shows women as equal to men, by asking whether it includes a scene in which two women discuss something other than a man:
This movie fails the Bechdel test.
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- For a movie to pass The Bechdel Test, it must contain just one thing – a scene in which two or more female characters have a conversation about anything at all besides men.
- The Bechdel Test, the brainchild of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, came out of a 1985 comic strip.
- 10 famous films that surprisingly fail the Bechdel Test
- You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to pass the Bechdel Test.
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