{"id":267856,"date":"2013-07-16T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/16\/yes-the-bechdel-test-its-named-for-alison\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:46:42","slug":"yes-the-bechdel-test-its-named-for-alison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/16\/yes-the-bechdel-test-its-named-for-alison\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yes, the Bechdel Test. It\u2019s named for Alison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. I have one called the Sexy Lamp Test, which is, if you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you\u2019re a hack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Comic book writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kellysue.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Sue DeConnick<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comixology.com\/Captain-Marvel\/comics-series\/8220\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Marvel<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comixology.com\/Avengers-Assemble\/comics-series\/5211\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers Assemble<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I like this one<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the Bechdel Test. It\u2019s named for Alison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/16\/yes-the-bechdel-test-its-named-for-alison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}