Episode Fourteen – The Bechdel Test and Westerns

In which Jim and I discuss the Bechdel Test, how it relates to female roles in Westerns, and how both of those topics relate to RPG’s. Then we discuss a couple of really good Westerns, some lessons that can be learned from them and added to your own settings / campaigns. We discuss variations of the Western, like Sci-Fi Westerns and even the Post Apocalypse Western.

• Adventure Week!
• JiffyCon
• ConnectiCon
• Will not be at GenCon … but the FtB guys will!
• Galactic Watercool Podcast
• Wikipedia: Bechdel Test also see: Bechdeltest.com
• Roger Ebert’s review of Jonah Hex

“If you want a woman in an old western town, there are only three occupations open to her, hooking, schoolmarming, and anyone called Ma.”

• Movie: Silverado
• Movie: Dances with Wolves
• Bedouin Hospitality
• Movie: The Postman
• Author: S. M. Stirling
  • Novel: Dies the Fire
  • Novel Island in the Sea of Time
• Forum Post: Viletta Vadim comments on sandbox video games

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