The Bechdel test

The bechdel test is a serie of guidelines that a movie has to pass to not be gender biased:

1) At least two named female characters

2) That female characters have to talk to eachother

3) They have to talk to eachother about something other than a man

It points out the machism that still exist in today's society and how, surprinsingly enough, not many movies pass this test. This has been atributed to the low proportion of women in the film industry, or to the assumptions about what the audience prefers.

This doesn't mean that the films that doesn't pass this test is bad and the ones that do are good, it's just a way of realising how poorly are women represented in the media. Some very famous films that didn't pass the test were: The social network, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows (Part 2), Avatar, the ENTIRE Lord of the Rings trilogy, etc.