A more recent instantiation of the same idea is the Bechdel Test or Mo Movie Measure (it’s named after a character called Mo in Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For), which a movie passes if it
1. has at least two women in it 2. who talk to one another 3. about something other than a man.
Depressingly few movies pass this test. Of course it can be applied to things other than movies.
It is none the less sometimes called the MMM, and the name does come from that character even though in the strip the test has nothing to do with her. See this blog entry for a confession for the person who named it the MMM.
A more recent instantiation of the same idea is the Bechdel Test or Mo Movie Measure (it’s named after a character called Mo in Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For), which a movie passes if it
1. has at least two women in it
2. who talk to one another
3. about something other than a man.
Depressingly few movies pass this test. Of course it can be applied to things other than movies.
Ludicrously minor nitpick: that strip appeared in DTWOF before Mo or any regular characters were introduced.
(Fun Home highly recommended btw)
It is none the less sometimes called the MMM, and the name does come from that character even though in the strip the test has nothing to do with her. See this blog entry for a confession for the person who named it the MMM.