This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Feminist Frequency takes a look at how a significant number of blockbuster films we know and love are incapable of passing Dykes to Watch Out For’s Alison Bechdel’s “Bechdel Test,” which requires a film to fulfill all three of the following requirements: #1. The film has to have at least two women in it; #2. Who talk to each other; #3. About something besides a man.
Pretty eye-opening stuff.
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I mean I guess there is a systemic problem? A lot of the movies that she listed were movies about men in a very male-dominated story. I mean, Shawshank Redemption? Was that really a movie that demonstrates a systemic need to only include stories about men, or, was it just a movie that took place inside of a men’s prison? Fight Club? It’s a movie that is about (among other things) the desire of men to prove themselves as masculine. My point is that yes, many movies are tailored to men and sometimes that is complete bullshit, but other times they’re just movies. Just entering into the convo.
P.S. Bechdel’s “Fun Home” is awesome.
