Sometimes movies that pass the Bechdel Test aren't necessarily feminist movies. And movies that may be arguably pro-women or pro-girl power, don't pass the Bechdel Test at all. Many women are well ...

As much as I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy in all its space-operatic wonder, that enjoyment was marred by what I can only describe as a miasma of douchiness. Featured Video This may sound like an ...

Rebecca Pahle at the Mary Sue explains that cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s famous test for whether a movie features any meaningful female characters is catching on in a more official way: When deciding ...

A short question, but one that’s important to me. My friends talk about men too much. (They talk about dating them, men they like, or what men are up to.) I love to think about the Bechdel Test in ...

In 1985, Alison Bechdel introduced the world to a simple test used to measure the representation of women in fiction, now commonly known as the Bechdel Test. In order to pass the Bechdel Test, a piece ...

56 Days — Catherine Ryan Howard’s best-selling novel yields an eight-episode thriller series in which an Irish couple’s COVID-era whirlwind romance leads to murder in under two months. Man, that’s ...

A. I love to think about the Bechdel Test in real life. For those who don’t know, the test asks this question, of movies/TV/other art: Do two women characters have at least one conversation that is ...

Detail of Alison Bechdel’s seminal “The Rule,” which inspired the rating system. (© Alison Bechdel) (via Flickr) Four Swedish film organizations are banding together to fight sexism by applying a ...