![]() ![]() ![]() It came in well behind Bechdel's 2006 memoir Fun Home, which was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical. Summer Reader Poll 2017: Comics And Graphic Novels Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic NovelsĪs a judge for NPR's poll of readers' 100 Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels, I was thrilled to see DTWOF get votes - though, to my mind, far too few. And many people who cite it have no idea where Bechdel first wrote about it: in the long-running, foundational and criminally overlooked comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. She didn't actually create it, her friend Liz Wallace did. ![]() The test's fame is just one of the many ironies that have marked Bechdel's career. The latest salvo was fired just this week, when The National Review's Kyle Smith called it "a meaningless way to measure whether movies pass the feminist litmus test." The test, which asks that a movie feature at least two women who have a conversation about something other than a man, has proven resiliently controversial. For that matter, she probably didn't imagine people would use something called the Internet to argue about it. Back in 1985, when Alison Bechdel first proposed a formula that women could use to pick movies, she couldn't have imagined she'd be known for the "Bechdel Test" three decades later. You can never tell what's going to hit - or when. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for Author Alison Bechdel ![]()
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