Bechdel test

In a 1985 comic strip of Dykes To Watch Out For the creator, Alison Bechdel came up with the idea for the "Bechdel test". The test was to be applied to movies and only had 3 rules. The first rule was that the movie had to have at least 2 female charecters. The second rule was that they had to talk to each other in at least one scene. The third rule was that when they spoke to each other they could not be talking about a man. On the surface this test is simple and in theory shouldn't be too hard for any movie to forfill. Yet it is shocking how very few movies aren't able to forfill at least one of two of the points on the test. While sure some movies especaily in the action genra like The Expendables wouldn't be expected to have many female charecters it is shocking how many fimls in all genras are unable to forfill this simple test. Even movies such as Beastly and Dear John who's target audience seemed to be teenage girls are unable to pass more than 1/3rd of the test. It should be incredibly simple for a movie who's main character is a woman to have just one conversation with another woman yet apparently in Hollywood seems to think that female characters should not speak to each other or that the only thing that women are interested in talking to each other about is love, sex, men and babies.