Ladies, think of how you converse and engage with your girlfriends and then then read this (taken from Wikipedia):

What is now known as the Bechdel test was introduced in Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In a 1985 strip titled "The Rule", an unnamed female character says that she only watches a movie if it satisfies the following requirements:[4]
1.It has to have at least two women in it,
2.who talk to each other,
3.about something besides a man.

Bechdel credited the idea for the test to a friend and karate training partner, Liz Wallace.

The test has been described as "the standard by which feminist critics judge television, movies, books and other media", and moved into mainstream criticism in the 2010s.[11] According to Neda Ulaby, the test still resonates because "it articulates something often missing in popular culture: not the number of women we see on screen, but the depth of their stories, and the range of their concerns."[9]

Several variants of the test have been proposed—for example, that the two women must be named characters.[12]

This test was developed in 1985 and can be considered still relevant today. Of films that do pass the test, a good proportion barely meet the criteria. The moment to relish in the glory of two women on screen not discussing men/love is often superficial and just a few lines. The following website lists movies (on the left panel) that have been tested and it's actually amazing to see that such a simple test fails more movies than I'd have previously thought . What do you think?

Feel free to name any movies you know would definitely pass the test

http://bechdeltest.com/
- click the movie to read detailed results

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phoinix: next!

shushhhh . Don't you guys wish for enlightened females?

Flytefalls:
shushhhh . Don't you guys wish for enlightened females?

Like seriously? Out of so many ways one could be enlightened, this is what u come up with, smh @feminist worries.

phoinix:

Like seriously? Out of so many ways one could be enlightened, this is what u come up with, smh @feminist worries.

A woman who cannot hold a conversation unless it orients around love or a man is to be pitied. Why should any person accept that most female roles on-screen act as a vehicle to drive a male plot. She has her own life, yet she hardly even exists!!

Look at the Bechdel criteria and when you are watching your next movie, spend a thought for the cause. Women are not so inane .

I agree with you, women are not inane, but movies are made to appeal to viewers, and these viewers hold predominantly conservative views (just guessing ). Society has established forms, it's a man's world...

Btw why are heroines always beautiful and sexy?

Have you tried relating Bechdel criteria to movies by female screen writers? I bet they are not different either