Medlen expanded upon this when she wrote, “hite feminist film discourse has made it their primary litmus test. To weaponize this “test” against a story of queer men feels especially malicious and disingenuous because the comic was calling out lack of queer media representation.įellow TMS writer D.R. Many have been quick to point out that the Bechdel-Wallace test is not a marker for a good representation of women in media or what makes a good movie-it did originate as a barb in a comic intended to illustrate how women are treated on movies, not as something intended to be an in-depth, nuanced media critique. These include the Mako Mori Test (2013), The Next Bechdel Test(s) (2017), and The Kent Test (2019). Since then, many others have created their own that continue this conversation, especially in regards to elements of the story and taking the inclusion of all women into account, not just women in general, where white women tend to be the ones who benefit. First appearing in the 1985 queer comic Dykes To Watch Out For, the test simply asks: Are there two or more women, with character names, in a movie? Do they speak with each other? Is this conversation about something other than a man? The test is just an interrogation of the lack of meaningful roles for women and points out that too many movies come with the same point of view-that being cisgender, straight, white, and male, though the “test” only deals with that equation in part. Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys?” This prompted some understandable backlash, and now even an amendment to the “test” by its creator.īefore even getting into the racial dynamics of that terrible take, let’s do a refresher on what the Bechdel-Wallace test (sometimes just called the Bechdel test) is. In now-deleted tweet, author and critic Hanna Rosin wrote, “So #FireIslandMovie gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way.
Here are a few of the Videos as promised.If you’re wondering who would see the gay Asian romance movie Fire Island and think it’s appropriate to bash it in the name of the Bechdel-Wallace test, we unfortunately have the answer. Did I forget to mention that we had about ~80 people in the room by the time it was done? 3 and 1/2 hour, choirs singing the Pokemon theme song, The internet is for porn, and If I Was Gay, and a ton of laughs later we were kicked out of the room again to make way for a scheduled panel. (Usually by grabbing them and dragging them in.) Soon James showed up and me and him started to MC the panel. Our resident KH Mougle along with some others was essential in getting more audience members into the panel. We did find a room and started the panel again with just 4 people. We had so much fun that we decided to do it again on Saturday if we could find a room. (Like so many other unsupecting victems) 4 and 1/2 hours later aprox 40 - 50 people were kicked out of the room as an actual scheduled panel was set to start. I joined the party a few minutes later, much to my surprise. The 'panel' started out with 3 girls and 1 guy who got board, found an empty room, and started talking about random stuff. The RSP (so that I can call it the Random Stuff Panel) was not a scheduled panel.
So what was the Random Sh** Panel (RSP) you ask? It was only the greatest Con panel ever.
Just because you are in the picture frame doesn't mean you have to smile for the camera.