FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Role, Queer Theory, Double Bind
28 Jul 2015
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The bechdel test is there to observe a legitimate conversation btw women that is not centered around men, the conversation is to be less than a minute, many of the oscars nominated for best film in. Hollywood did not pass the test b/c men were normally the central role and women were behind the scenes. Even if it were a female dominated movie, it was not meaningful conversation (sex and the. Seeing in a film if there is at least two women, with names, that have a dialogue about something other than a man. It doesn"t tell us if the film is women centered, but it"s a tool to judge hollywood whether its sexist. There is no problem about men"s dialogues in films, where men are usually central in hollywood unlike women. Men do not have a problem of lack of representation; men"s stories are not under represented: women aren"t the only ones marginalized in hollywood.
