History Quotes / TheBechdelTest

'''Morty:''' Why is 'lesbian' part of her job title?!\\

'''Davi:d''' OOH LOOK AT LAURA HUDSON AND HER RADICAL FEMINIST AGENDA. There you go, commenters. [[DearNegativeReader I saved you the trouble!]]

-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]]''' to {{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZXQf77hhk Princess Rap Battle]]"

->''"And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends…They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that."''

->'''Laura''': I'd also like to note that there is literally only one scene where any female characters appear in either of these issues, and this is it. Naturally, they do not speak.\\
'''David''': OOH LOOK AT LAURA HUDSON AND HER RADICAL FEMINIST AGENDA. There you go, commenters. [[DearNegativeReader I saved you the trouble!]]

-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/01/05/star-trek-enterprise-strange-new-world-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E04StrangeNewWorld Strange New World]]"

->'''Rick''': Morty! Do you know what the Bechdel Test is?\\
'''Morty''': T-the what?\\
'''Rick''': For god's sakes, Morty, the formula for measuring female agency in a story proposed by lesbian cartoonist Alison Be--what the hell are they teaching you in that school?!\\
'''Morty''': Other stuff!\\
'''Rick''': [[ItMakesSenseInContext Then you've KILLED US BOTH!]]\\
'''Morty''': Why is 'lesbian' part of her job title?!\\
'''Rick''': Oh, NOW you're progressive?!\\
'''Morty''': What is the test?!\\
'''Rick''': [[AlmostDeadGuy You have to tell...Morty, Morty...two women, they have to have names, and talk to each other about something...other than a man...]]\\
'''Morty''': [[SeriousBusiness No! No, Rick listen to me! Once upon a time, my mom, and my sister...listen to me!]]

->''"Someone pointed out that [[Music/SirMixALot "Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt"]] passes the Bechdel test and I haven't stopped laughing for a week."''

->'''Speckle''': I'm gonna go get dressed. [''sing-song''] Don't talk about me while I'm gone!\\
'''Tuca''': We never do.

-->-- '''Virginia Woolf'''

-->-- '''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/deep-space-nine-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "In the Pale Moonlight"

-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/01/05/star-trek-enterprise-strange-new-world-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Strange New World"

-->-- '''[=@Krinkle8=]''' on Twitter.

-->--'''[[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]]''' to {{Disney/Cinderella}}, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZXQf77hhk Princess Rap Battle]]"

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''', ''Never Ricking Morty''

-->-- '''Virgina Woolf'''

-->-- '''[[http://philsandifer.tumblr.com/post/98161155591/fuck-the-bechdel-test Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

->And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends…They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that.
--> -- '''Virgina Woolf'''

->It’s not that the Bechdel test identifies particularly good or feminist films. It’s that it’s [[DamnedByFaintPraise a low bar to clear]] that huge swaths of things simply don’t.
-->--'''[[http://philsandifer.tumblr.com/post/98161155591/fuck-the-bechdel-test Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

-->--[[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-review/ Laura Hudson]], "The Complete and Utter Insanity of ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''"

->It's fascinating to compare the lives of Sisko and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Janeway]] in their respective series six: he is juggling the fates of Empires whilst she is [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Fair_Haven_%28episode%29 personalising her own dildo!]]
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/deep-space-nine-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "In the Pale Moonlight"

->There’s an alternate cut of the episode where Trip and Travis resolve their problem by building a tree house. T’Pol spends the rest of the episode trying to guess the password.

->Even when they formed their own religious group, these women still go on about shrivelled gonads and limp dicks. Talk about failing the Bechdel test.
--> -- '''WebVideo/ThatSciFiGuy''', ''WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown: The Shepherd''

->Someone pointed out that [[Music/SirMixALot "Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt"]] passes the Bechdel test and I haven't stopped laughing for a week''
-->-- '''@Krinkle8''' on Twitter.

->''Someone pointed out that [[Music/SirMixALot "Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt"]] passes the Bechdel test and I haven't stopped laughing for a week''
-->-- @Krinkle8

->''Someone pointed out that [[SirMixALot "Oh my god, becky, look at her butt"]] passes the Bechdel test and I haven't stopped laughing for a week''

->''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' was a show conceived in feminist or at least pro-woman terms. Conceived by a woman writer-producer, Jeri Taylor, along with Michael Piller, ''Voyager'' was the first Trek series with a woman Captain. Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) was an interesting mixture of Kirk-style heroics, nurturing, maternal sensitivity, and thoughtfully enquiring scientific curiosity (Janeway is a scientist as well as a Captain; unfortunately, this aspect of her persona [[{{Flanderization}} was downplayed in later years]]). Whereas ''Voyager'' had a strong female Captain, Janeway and several other strong women characters, ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' features two female characters who represent two sides of the debased woman in patriarchy, [[StrawFeminist the tough woman denounced by hostile males]] and [[HystericalWoman the fumbling, wan hysteric.]]
-->--'''[[http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/StarTrekEnt/2.html David Greven]]'''

-->--'''[[http://philsandifer.tumblr.com/post/98161155591/fuck-the-bechdel-test Phil Sandifer]]'''

'Til a man just ''appears!''"''