Jane the Virgin – Season 1 – Episode 12 – Bechdel Test

Episode Twelve passes the Bechdel Test.

In one of the scenes, Alba asks Jane how the script she is writing for dad is doing. Jane says it is not going so well, and it is too much pressure.
Criteria:
1. Two women who have names: Alba and Jane
2. Talk to each other: Alba and Jane are talking to each other
3. About something besides a man: They are talking about Jane’s writing

Gender Roles:

Xo (Jane’s mom)
- Supportive
  - Rogelio’s career goals
Jane (Main Character)
- Humble
- Helpful
  - Tries to help her father keep his job
- Gullible
  - The writers convince her to write the script so she can kill off her father
  - Falls for Louisa’s apology
- Sympathetic
  - Towards Petra in the stairwell
- Too trusting
Jane’s Father
- Not humble
- Forceful and Emotional with his language and word choice
- Gets emotional when Jane calls him Dad
- Self-conscious
  - Thinks they fired him because he isn’t sex anymore
Petra
- Weak
  - Scared of Milos
- Tender
  - Crying in the stair well
- Gullible
  - Fell for the fact that her mother couldn’t walk
Michael
- Confrontational
  - Confronts Nadine after she turns him in
- Does not follow the rules
  - Goes to the plastic surgeon without a warrant and after he is fired

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