Bechdel Test Movie List

In fact, there are more female main characters than male -- Gru's mother, Miss Hattie, and the three girls: Margo, Edith, and Agnes, versus Gru, Vector, Dr. Nefario, and Mr. Perkins.

The girls have several conversations with each other and with the other major female characters, including one with their ballet teacher. Admittedly, a lot of the conversations are about Gru, but many, particularly during the first act, are about their cookie sales or their hopes to be adopted.

Even when they talk about Gru it isn't a romantic longing, which I suspect is what most objectionably (and objectifying) female-female conversations are about.

I don't think only romantic longing is at issue. That might be the worst case, but if all your conversations with other women are about men because you're scheming to get free of them, or trying to figure out what their intentions are, or hoping they'll deliver the goods, or come save you, or whatever... it's still depicting a world where men have all the power.

Delighted to see Despicable Me do so well at the Bechtdel Test, it was a good movie! At this point we might need a higher-bar test, in which we look at what *percentage* of the conversations break down how by gender?

Honestly? It passes the test with flying colors, so your next step is to devise a harder test in hopes that it will fail? There is nothing in this movie that could be seriously construed as anti-feminist.