(October 29, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I dunno, I see it more as a missed opportunity. There's an interesting conversation to be had about certain sexist implications and plotlines in Moffat's work on the show, but that study wasn't interested in having it, in favor of a vaguely correlated quantitative thing. When I saw that the Bechdel Test was the first thing they looked for I just stopped taking the whole thing seriously; it's a good thought experiment, but the Bechdel Test is not a reliable indicator of sexism. It's not even an indicator of sexism at all, as far as I'm concerned.
The Bechdel Test is a reliable indicator though of how women's roles are demeaned. This is a symptom of something that occurs more widely through society is why we have glass ceilings and pay gaps and why traditionally women's work is undervalued..
I think the most obvious example of Doctor Who failing the Bechdel test for me was that haunted house episode where they rescue Clara's descendent from the future. The only time the two women talked alone with each other it was about how they felt about their respective men.
