Bechdel-test testing
Dec. 5th, 2012 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raspberryhunterYuletide has been kicking my butt, but that's another story...
Now that I have twenty fics up, which is a nice base-10 round number, I went through them to check for Bechdel test passing. Nine of them pass Bechdel. Eleven of them pass reverse-Bechdel. (Many of these overlap, and six fics which are F/M romances or F/M main interaction don't pass either one.) I'm fairly happy with this.
What I'm not so happy with is that for seven of those nine fics, I had to make a conscious decision that it was going to pass Bechdel. Two of those seven I actually had to be told by a beta that one of the women characters was not fleshed out enough (independent of whether it passed Bechdel). (The two where I didn't have to make a conscious decision were both written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
rarewomen. All hail rarewomen!)
In exactly none of the reverse-Bechdel passes did I think about it at all. They just happened.
Yeah... so... I think I see the problem.
(Also, if it weren't for the Misses Clause challenge the first year I did yuletide, last year, I am not sure how much I would have thought about it at all.)
Now that I have twenty fics up, which is a nice base-10 round number, I went through them to check for Bechdel test passing. Nine of them pass Bechdel. Eleven of them pass reverse-Bechdel. (Many of these overlap, and six fics which are F/M romances or F/M main interaction don't pass either one.) I'm fairly happy with this.
What I'm not so happy with is that for seven of those nine fics, I had to make a conscious decision that it was going to pass Bechdel. Two of those seven I actually had to be told by a beta that one of the women characters was not fleshed out enough (independent of whether it passed Bechdel). (The two where I didn't have to make a conscious decision were both written for
rarewomen. All hail rarewomen!) In exactly none of the reverse-Bechdel passes did I think about it at all. They just happened.
Yeah... so... I think I see the problem.
(Also, if it weren't for the Misses Clause challenge the first year I did yuletide, last year, I am not sure how much I would have thought about it at all.)
