{"id":2027,"date":"2010-07-29T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2010-07-29T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T07:49:36","slug":"mainstream-movies-ignore-women-the-bechdel-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/mainstream-movies-ignore-women-the-bechdel-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Movies Ignore Women: The Bechdel Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object width=\"450\" height=\"278\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLF6sAAMb4s&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bLF6sAAMb4s&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>This great video details The Bechdel Test, which is a way of measuring how mainstream movies treat women. To pass the test, a movie has to:<\/p>\n<p>(1) have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man. <\/p>\n<p>The test first appeared in 1985 in Alison Bechdel&#8217;s comic <em>Dykes to Watch Out For<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bechdeltest.com\/\" target=\"blank\">This site<\/a> has a growing list of films that do pass the test. Films from 2010 include: <em>Toy Story 3, Sex and the City 2<\/em> and, perhaps surprisingly, <em>The Karate Kid<\/em>. What&#8217;s more interesting is applying the test to your favourite movies. It makes you realise that the male point of view has become so normalised that we&#8217;re often blind to the marginalisation of women in films. Worse still, this whole attitude seems to be entrenched in Hollywood and is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehathorlegacy.com\/why-film-schools-teach-screenwriters-not-to-pass-the-bechdel-test\/\" target=\"blank\">actually taught in film schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of applying the Bechdel Test to porn films seems almost ludicrous; porn films are usually about one or more women &#8220;discussing&#8221; a man, nice and hard. Still, it&#8217;s another useful way of revealing just how male-oriented most porn can be.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikalust.com\/\">Erika Lust<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This great video details The Bechdel Test, which is a way of measuring how mainstream movies treat women. To pass the test, a movie has to: (1) have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man. The test first appeared in 1985 in Alison Bechdel&#8217;s comic Dykes to Watch Out For. This site has a growing list of films <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/mainstream-movies-ignore-women-the-bechdel-test\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,14],"tags":[108,539,915,856],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-popular-culture","category-porn","tag-bechdel-test","tag-movies","tag-porn","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}