I’m amazed at how often people employ the term feminism where it doesn’t apply. So, in order to begin to set the record straight, this time let’s explore some common…

With all this talk about PASSING THE BECHDEL TEST and the implied stigma attached to films that don’t, has anyone stopped to consider what films don’t pass the Reverse Bechdel…

Last time, I took to task the male-driven film, Manchester By the Sea https://iconema.com.mx/oscar-winner-bechdel-test-loser-manbabies-by-the-sea/?lang=en for aggrandizing bad male behavior while resigning its female characters to the limited patriarchal roles of…

It was a week after the Women’s March in January of 2017 when I went to see Manchester by the Sea. By movie’s end, my optimism fueled by the March…

A number of critics have denigrated the Bechdel Test and not without good reason. As previously addressed, it’s a funny punchline from a 1980s comic strip that serves as an…

By now I hope we can all agree that just because a film features female characters who speak with one another about anything other than a man, it does not…

We’ve now explored the meaning of feminism and, in broad terms, what does and doesn’t constitute a feminist-friendly film (https://iconema.com.mx/author/dsnivelyen/?lang=en). However, when it comes to active film viewing, applying these…