Fall Samhain Moon
In Modern and Post Modern we read Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home. It’s poignant, well-drawn and has a lot to say about gender and the corrosive personal affects of having to hide one’s sexual preferences behind society’s gender roles. I’m not surprised to see her in this interesting quote. Gonna try and test movies from now on myself. Here’s a link to her website: Dykes to Watch Out For.
“Four independent theaters in Sweden have launched a campaign to install a rating system that classifies films based on their representations of gender. Films will be approved with an “A-rating” if they pass the Bechdel test, named after Alison Bechdel, whose 1985 comic strip inspired its development. The Bechdel test has the minimal criteria that the film contains at least two female characters that talk to each other about something besides men. While this yardstick of measurement may seem easy enough, the amount of films passing the test has proven surprising scant.”
