The Bechdel Test is a criterion for judging films that was created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It requires that a movie have at least two (named) women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The test is a quick, easy way to judge whether any group of movies (say: everything currently in theaters) is sexist. It’s such a simple metric, but it really snaps into view how many mainstream films (around 40 to 50 percent!) either don’t feature women or use women only as devices to further stories about men, to provide exposition or eye candy or cheap stakes (i.e., I’m doing this heist to get back my estranged hot wife, who had one line in the whole movie!!!). It’s not surprising that in real life men treat women as disposable, as less real, like their desires and preferences and consent matter less than a man’s, when films tell men that women are just props and that men are the protagonists.
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