Bechdel test

Writer Hanna Rosin has angered a number of movie buffs on Twitter Tuesday for her remarks about female representation in the new movie, which is a gay rom-com ...

It asks whether a work of art features 1/ at least two women 2/ who talk to each other 3/ about something other than a man. Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy best friend?" "Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys?

The film's primary cast is made up of mainly Asian queer people playing queer people. There's more than just one representation problem to solve in movies.

White feminism has a long history of making arguments about inclusion or visibility only if specifically white women are included—from first-wave feminism and its blatant racism to second-wave feminism and its exclusion of queer women (and racism), to this modern idea that media is not valid unless it passes an arbitrary test. The entire point was to discuss the lack of queer female representation in fiction. First of all, how dare anyone call Ms. Margaret Cho “drab”? That woman has never been drab a day in her life, and no one should forget that. The new film test should be: only see a movie if its story is told through the lens of literally anyone other than a white, straight, cisgender man. Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys?” (Rosin has since deleted and apologized for the tweet, shown below.) So far, 2022 has given us a lot of great new queer content, as the streaming giants have tried to step up their game on representation.

Hulu's new LGBTQ+ spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, stars Yang, Joel Kim Booster and Conrad Ricamora, and is about a group of queer friends who gather ...

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A claim that the new gay rom-com hit Fire Island fails what's become a white feminist measure has spurred a debate on Twitter.

Is applying this metric to a film that focuses on the experiences of a marginalized group like queer Asians even fair, or is this “call out” an example of peak white feminism? For those unfamiliar with the Bechdel-Wallace test ( the author’s preferred name), it began as a joke in Alison Bechdel’s comic Dykes to Watch Out For as criticism for male-dominated films and the lack of female representation in mainstream cinema. It features the likes of Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, and Margaret Cho, and is being hailed for centering queer Asian individuals — but, as it turns out, not by everyone.

Rosin took to Twitter and wrote that the LGBTQ rom-com gets 'an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way'

It's a cliche but the fact that I didn't see it coming means I have a lot to learn. What I had to say was beside the point, not to mention a buzzkill on a fun summer movie. It's a cliche but the fact that I didn't see it coming means I have a lot to learn." you can instead think about the ways in which you center yourself in situations because you feel entitlement and examine how you can become a better person." "What I had to say was beside the point, not to mention a buzzkill on a fun summer movie. Are you really that self absorbed, so unable to step outside of yourself for one moment, that you can’t see that maybe it’s not *supposed* to be about you?

Hulu's "Fire Island" film, a queer AAPI take on "Pride & Prejudice," was criticized for failing the Bechdel test for representation.

It was important to me to reflect the reality of what it is to be a gay man of color in the movie.” Director Andrew Ahn added, “The perspective of this film is Joel’s perspective as a gay Asian American man on this island. Rosin continued, “What I had to say was beside the point, not to mention a buzzkill on a fun summer movie. Cho herself responded to the tweet, writing, “I didn’t realize I was drab. It originated, however, as a joke in Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” and there is some debate about how seriously Bechdel intended it to be applied to discussions of all media. Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy best friend?”

The cartoonist chimed into the fiery Twitter debate spurred by one user's claim that the gay romcom Fire Island does not pass her namesake Bechdel Test.

So now all you need to pass the Bechdel Test is a film where two women talk about something other than a man or two men vigorously debate the content of a Nobel Prize–winning female author in a screenplay based on a Jane Austen novel. It’s a cliche but the fact that I didn’t see it coming means I have a lot to learn.” “Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass.”