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Movies That Don’t Pass The Bechdel Test
What is The Bechdel Test?
The Bechdel test is a test of female characterization in movies. Passing the Bechdel test requires that:
1. The movie has at least two women characters
2. The women have to talk to each other
3. The conversation has to be about something other than a man
- The Social Network
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
- Avatar
- All of The Lord of The Rings movies
- Run Lola Run
- Ant-Man
- Fantastic Four
- Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
- Papertowns
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Southpaw
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Gravity
- The Hangover
- Identity Thief
- Pacific Rim
- Pain and Gain
- 21 Jump Street
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Avengers
- Django Unchained
- Looper
- This Means War
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Hangover Part II
- Hangover Part III
- Moneyball
- The Rum Diary
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
- Your Highness
Crazy
A man likes to reserve the word “crazy” for his significant other, for whenever she calls him out on his shit, or holds him accountable for his bad behaviour.
Calling a woman crazy when she expresses (emotionally) concerns about how a man has made her feel, in regards to his behaviour towards her, is a way for said man to shift responsibility and a way to disseminate his sense of superiority.
Men have long been socialized to believe that anything emotional equals femininity. And one of the worst things you can say to a man is: “What are you? A girl/woman/pussy?” Therefore, they want to stay away from expressing themselves emotionally, which makes them I’ll equipped at being able to deal with a woman’s emotions or feelings. That ignorance breeds fear, and that fear breeds an unwillingness to learn to accept emotionality as a valid expression.
TV Shows With Feminist Themes
- Rizzoli and Isles
- New Girl
- The Golden Girls
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
- Orphan Black
- Grey’s Anatomy
- Girls
- Masters of Sex
- The White Queen
- Glee
- How to Get Away With Murder
- Scandal
Movies That Pass The Bechdel Test
What is The Bechdel Test?
The Bechdel test is a test of female characterization in movies. Passing the Bechdel test requires that:
1. The movie has at least two women characters
2. The women have to talk to each other
3. The conversation has to be about something other than a man
- Mad Max Fury Road
- The Help
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Bridesmaids
- Connie and Carla
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Death Proof
- Georgia Rule
- Girl, Interrupted
- In Her Shoes
- The Nanny Diaries
- Pitch Perfect
- Saved!
- Sister Act
- Steel Magnolias
- Whip It
- 28 Days
- Burlesque
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Kill Bill Volume 1
Feminist Reading List #1
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape – Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
- Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters – Jessica Valenti
- Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love – Bell Hooks
- Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution – Laurie Penny
- The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women – Jessica Valenti
- Men Explain Things to Me – Rebecca Solnit
- Bitch Planet – Kelly Sue Deconnick
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
- Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions – Gloria Steinem
Hey There
This blog is for all the feminist killjoys out there. Women (and Men) who are not afraid to identify as Feminists, and know the true definition of Feminism: “The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (not to be confused with Misandry).
I will be posting original pieces, as well as Feminist articles, videos, memes, poems, reading lists etc.
Jen.
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