Just for the fun of it: Does your novel pass the Bechdel test?

To pass the Bechdel test, your novel needs to have this:

1. It has to have at least two women in it (named characters)
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man


Mine does.

Not yet, but so far my novel only has 4 characters with extended dialog and the two females have never met.

It will in another chapter or so.

Huh. Mine too.

-Shem

Yes.

Mine does too. Last chapter my two females were talking to each other about their conflicting feelings toward Jimmy Buffett fans.

Mine does, but it would be hard for it NOT to. The MC is a ten year old girl whose chief interest in her life is her horse, and the other significant female character is her mother. They never talk about boys at all, because a) she's too young to really be interested, and b) they're out on the prairie in the Nebraska Territory in 1863, and there are no other boys around to even talk about! :)

Hell no. Rather like Conan The Barbarian, female characters in my fantasy novel are in short supply.

3/5 POV characters are women. One of them carried on quite the conversation with not one, but two other named women.

Holy Comma Splice, Batman!

And the conversation had little to do with men. It was actually about starting a revolution! Huzzah!

Nope. There are female characters, but the bulk of the story is about two people being stuck together, alone, and the MC is a guy. There's almost no chance of meeting those criteria, and I kind of feel like it would be pandering to jam something like that in there. Sorry, Ms. Bechdel!

nope...my main ones are a man and a woman...so I guess not..that's not to say this won't change when I change my setting for the next part of the book.

Woo! All three of my main characters are females. They all talk to each other. And the talk to each other about things other than men! (Although they do talk about men too, because you know, there are men in the novel too who relate to the story.) I think that passes?

Definitely

No, which is kind of hilarious. Everything I've ever written in the past would pass with flying colors, but I randomly decided to pursue this idea I've had for years. The idea is a young adult novel with a 16-year-old male protagonist, and he's a bit isolated throughout much of the novel. He talks to female characters but none of them has talked to each other yet and probably won't.

Nope. So far, my novel has

1. Older woman who talks to a young boy.

2. Family members in passing as a story is being told.


Pirates on ship the whole time = no women.

wow! mine will! it has two female characters, who will be meeting shortly, and will DEFINITELY be talking about something other than men!

Mine is a man and a woman falling in love after knowing each other their whole lives, and a man and a man falling in love almost at first sight, during Thanksgiving dinner. And a quantity of Dean Martin. But I really don't give a, you know, about passing somebody's test. I'd rather save it to enjoy.

Amazingly, mine passes. The main character is in a military task force, and the officer in charge of her is a female psychopath. They've had many discussions which don't involve men. Normally the discussions involve orders and/or the consequences of disobeying thereof, but they're generally not about men at all.

Darn, does it count if one female is unable to speak, but they communicate through signals?

Yes. What will be the first conversation in the book once I get to the editing phase has the main character and one of her classmates talking about job-hunting problems and an infamous piloting mistake the classmate made during a simulation.

(Admittedly, the classmate's only a partially named character, but there're at least two other conversations so far that also qualify.)

My first novel does pass, but do they have to NEVER talk about a man or can they talk about a man AND lots of other stuff? hehe

Second novel so far only has one woman!!! OMG, what shall I do about that!