Bechdel
Proper noun
Meaning
Bechdel (plural Bechdels)
A surname from German.
Phrases with the word
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Examples
Thankfully, 2019 saw a heap of great films that passed the Bechdel test while also featuring strong, leading female characters.
Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist behind Dykes to Watch Out ForFun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, and, of course, the ever-relevant, has been named a recipient of this year's MacArthur Fellows, also known as the "genius grant."
Ever the lover of the self-protective paradox, Akhtar quotes Alison Bechdel in his epigraph: “I can only make things up about things that have already happened.”
Alison Bechdel has posted a new video to her youtube account (abechdel).
However, even does not pass the Bechdel test, which is the bare minimum at this point.
As the reader jumps backward and forward in time, Bechdel relentlessly explores her relationship with her mother, peeling back the layers of the onion in a visually exhilarating manner.