I mean, really this is what it’s all about. And for all the fragile male whinging about it, it’s by no means a measure of overall quality. It’s just a barometer for one specific facet of storytelling.
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“Just”?
Why is it that defenses of the Bechdel Test often end up minimizing it? As if to say, “Guy,s, GUYS! Chill, what you’re getting upset about isn’t really a big deal!”
Thing is, the test is a big deal. It continues to be a cultural milestone and touchstone for a lot of women. The male fragility that you rightly point out it always seems to trigger perfectly demonstrates why that’s so.
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A bad turn of phrase. I wasn’t trying to minimize the importance of what the Test is trying to do, I was trying to impress upon the point that it’s not any measure of quality as it feels to me like some naysayers in this thread are either unwittingly or purposefully trying to move goalposts. As a result, I also contributed to moving these goalposts and I apologize for that.
Just to be clear, as a concept I absolutely find it to be an important tool for bringing awareness to something that may not be readily apparent - especially to men. I know when I was first made aware of the Bechdel Test it was certainly an eye opener for me and I took it as a great learning experience.
I don’t really get why some people are so threatened or triggered by the notion that women in media deserve agency beyond fleshing out a male character, but I guess that’s male fragility for you. It’s all a slippery slope, or some other such nonsense.
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Well, this thread went pretty much exactly how I thought it would, sadly.
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I’m baffled buy guys that insist males are “better” because we are logical and don’t get all emotional and then follow that up by being illogical and emotional when… (literally anything). And it’s not even the healthy sort of emotional.
News Flash: No one needs you. No one will care when you are gone. No one.
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