# The Bechdel Test

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 15, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764 "2014-03-15T14:47:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 2

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### Author: ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764/21 "2014-03-23T19:05:34Z")

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You’d think at 50 years old, I’d have learned to proofread by now…

:smack:

Break room

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### Author: ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764/22 "2014-03-23T19:48:40Z")

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Hey, you gave us an excuse to think about Brak. And that’s never a bad thing.

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764/23 "2014-03-23T21:44:16Z")

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But does Brak ever talk to any other women?

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### Author: ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bechdel-test/683764/24 "2014-03-24T00:09:42Z")

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Just his mom, I think.

About a _man_. (Dad or Zorak or Thundercleese, mostly.) It actually is pretty sexist.

But funny. (I miss the Golden Age of Adult Swim!)

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