In the episode (titled The Rule), a woman tells her friend that if she has to watch a film, it must satisfy three basic requirements: Like most things that take root in 21st century popular culture, the Bechdel Test initially began as a satirical joke in cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip, ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’. Which is where helpful measures like the Bechdel Test come into play as a means to fairly evaluate female representation in film, TV, and - more recently - literature. It’s no secret that female representation in popular media can be woefully inadequate.įrom works that indulge in hypersexualised and/or comedic caricatures of women, stereotypical representations of the ‘nurturing’ female character, or stories that simply sideline women as stepping stones towards a central plot for male protagonists, it can be difficult to find a work of fiction that represents women as intricate, three-dimensional, uniquely human characters.
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