Bechdel Test: Why it's Important and Why it's Tragic

The Bechdel Test, for those of you who aren’t already
aware, is a simple test by which a film or book can be evaluated. The point of
it is that stories, by and large are inherently gender-biased.


In order to pass
the Bechdel test, a story has to do three things:
1 – It needs at least 2 named female characters
2 – those characters have to talk to each other
3 – the conversation has to be