{"id":36154,"date":"2011-05-21T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36154"},"modified":"2011-10-26T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T05:54:19","slug":"database-of-bechdel-test-movie-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/21\/database-of-bechdel-test-movie-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Database of Bechdel Test Movie Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect most Soc Images readers will, by now, be familiar with the Bechdel Test<\/a> — the set of criteria\u00a0for evaluating whether female characters are included in movies in even minimally non-male-centered ways, made popular by Alison Bechdel of Dykes to Watch Out For<\/a>. To pass, a movie has to have at least two female characters who have at least one conversation with one another about something other than a man. For a quick overview, see our repost of Anita Sarkeesian discussing the Bechdel Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leah B. let us know that there’s a website, Bechdel Test Movie List<\/a>, entirely devoted to rating movies based on the criteria (with the stipulation that female characters have to actually be named to count). It consists of a list of movies that have been added and rated by readers; there are currently over 2,000 movies produced between 1900 and 2011 rated on the website. This is, obviously, nowhere near a random sample; as you’d expect, it’s highly weighted toward more recent movies, and of course not everyone agrees on the ratings (you can add a symbol to show you disagree and leave a comment on a movie’s rating page).<\/p>\n

That said, the site includes a stats pag<\/a>e that is interesting to look through just for a snapshot of the inclusion of women in these movies. Here’s a breakdown of the entire list; green indicates movies that passed all three tests, yellow passed 2, orange passed 1, and red didn’t pass any of the three:<\/p>\n

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It’s fun to browse through, for entertainment value and a starting place for thinking about the Bechdel Test and pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suspect most Soc Images readers will, by now, be familiar with the Bechdel Test — the set of criteria\u00a0for evaluating whether female characters are included in movies in even minimally non-male-centered ways, made popular by Alison Bechdel of Dykes to Watch Out For. To pass, a movie has to have at least two female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,343],"class_list":["post-36154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-tvmovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40969,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154\/revisions\/40969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}