Comments on: The Rise of the Bechdel Test http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/09/04/the-rise-of-the-bechdel-test/ Science served wet and salty Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miriam Goldstein http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/09/04/the-rise-of-the-bechdel-test/#comment-2101 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:50:48 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.wordpress.com/?p=681#comment-2101 How about Niki and DL from Heroes? Though I’m not the biggest fan of the show, they actually had an interracial couple (with adorable biracial kid) and it had nothing to do with the plot. Oh! And Pearlman and Daniels from the Wire. I wonder if it’s meaningful that both couples are black men and white women?

]]> By: Christopher Taylor http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/09/04/the-rise-of-the-bechdel-test/#comment-2100 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:07:39 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.wordpress.com/?p=681#comment-2100 The Deggans Rule – 1. At least two nonwhite characters in the main cast…2. in a show that’s not about race.

Can I add a subsidiary rule to that one, that requires that if two people of different races are dating each other, it is not a significant plot point that they are from different races. Sadly enough, the first thing I saw that satisfied that requirement was, from memory, a plot line on Ally McBeal.

]]> By: anna http://theoystersgarter.com/2008/09/04/the-rise-of-the-bechdel-test/#comment-2067 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:33:20 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.wordpress.com/?p=681#comment-2067 i love the bechdel test.

and, yes, that is my one real problem with the wire. they could have made him a sleazebag jewish-ish lawyer (these must exist) without regularly rubbing our (contemptuously large) noses in his jewishness. particularly when our noses are rubbed in no one else’s ethnic background on the show. and he’s almost the only unambiguously evil character. W.T.F.

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