This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re thinking about the recent release of queer Jane Austen adaptation, Fire Island, the Bechdel Test, and why people insist on using a pretty simple litmus test as the basis of all their genuinely terrible film opinions.
You can find a list of references below:
Jennifer O’Meara (2016, Feminist Media Studies) - What "The Bechdel Test" doesn't tell us: examining women's verbal and vocal (dis)empowerment in cinema
Megan Garber (2015, The Atlantic) - Call It the ‘Bechdel-Wallace Test’
Alison Bechdel (1985, Dykes to Watch Out For) - The Rule
You can download a full transcript here.