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Do the Women Have Names?

The Bechdel Test for women in movies is simply described in the video.  I don’t think we have the same problem in television series (just sometimes in story rooms).  Am I wrong?

This was written by admin. Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2010, at 7:40 am. Filed under women. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

4 Comments

  1. Jana wrote:

    My 8 year old daughter just said we should mail this to all our girl friends. I’ll definitely add it to my HIT list my students ! Why I love blogging and bloggers!!

    jana

    Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
  2. Lisa Hunter wrote:

    Of course women characters have names: WAITRESS, HOT CHICK, HOOKER, SNOOTY CHEERLEADER #3, …

    Friday, July 30, 2010 at 4:23 pm | Permalink
  3. Terence wrote:

    You make an excellent point, but one has to think that this “short-coming” has nothing to do with bias against women because take a look at great TV shows - they DO pass this test and they have huge a viewership - e.g. The Good Wife, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, True Blood, Lie to Me…. etc.

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 5:28 am | Permalink
  4. admin wrote:

    It’s true, tv is much more a woman’s medium that film.

    Monday, August 2, 2010 at 6:58 am | Permalink

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