Dykes to Watch Out For (DtWOF, #1) by Alison Bechdel

Dykes to Watch Out For (DtWOF, #1) Reviews

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  Imogen

  All of the Dykes to Watch out For books came into my store. Or, like, the first ten or so. So fine, FINE, I'm gonna get over myself and admit that I have such a bad book crush on Alison Bechdel and ALSO that maybe I can have a sense of humor about what a fuckin lezzie I am. So.
  
  So this first one is weird because some folks in it have the names and physical characteristics of the characters who would eventually make up the ongoing plot, but they are not those characters. It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone, man, but you are on acid! Except less intense.
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  Rachel

  Having read the whole series (11 books so far), it's fun to see how Bechdel's art has matured. The first book in the series really has nothing to do with the series. The characters you will grow to love in books 2 through 11 aren't found here. There is no overall plot, just a collection of strips and cartoons. That's not to say this is a bad book, but just know going in that it is not really a part of what DtWOf has become. You can safely skip this book and start with book 2 and you won't missing anything plot-wise.
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  saïd

  Being neither a dyke nor someone to watch out for, I put off reading this one for quite a while in favour of other books. But when I did finally read it, I mostly just felt bad for Alison Bechdel. I mean, everyone knows about the Bechdel test these days, but most people don’t know that it originated not as an intentional must-be-this-feminist-to-ride ticket for every single film ever made. Some really good, really feminist films don’t feature two women talking to each other about a topic that isn’t a man, and some really bad, really misogynistic films do! It’s like that old adage about how well-behaved women seldom make history, which obviously means that women shouldn’t be well-behaved. Right?
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  Janine

  3.5/5 stars.
  
  I genuinely enjoyed it but I didn't feel it was anything particularly astounding! I love the alphabet and the way, even in her early work, Bechdel works against essentialism re: the lesbian identity.
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  Laura Siegel

  The best comic book series ever. About a cast of lovable and quirky characters revolving around a woman's bookstore. And what's best-they really evolve. Read them all. You won' be disappointed.
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  Marsha

  Filled with smirking humor as well as knowing wit, Ms. Bechdel proves that dykes (femme, butch, leather gals, whatever) have it just as rough in the dating world as the rest of us. Whether they’re eyeing that strong women doing arm curls at the gym, secretly smirking at the problems of straight people trying to avoid pregnancies, leaving relationships or starting them or just opting out altogether (being alone means you can go out whenever you want without guilt!), Ms. Bechdel’s characters are right on the money. Just as funny now as when it was inked in the 80s, Dykes to Watch Out For is worth re-reading or reading for the first time if you didn’t catch it in the era of big hair.
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  Niina

  Alison Bechdelin sarjakuvan pohjalta on tehty Bechdelin testi, sitä strippiä ei kuitenkaan tässä kokoelmassa ollut. Sarjis kertoo tv-sarja L-koodin tapaan lesboystävysten elämästä ylä- ja alamäkineen.
  
  Käydään Pride-kulkueella, riidellään, sovitaan ja tehdään vauva. Viimeksi mainittu on tämän kahdesta albumista kootun kokonaisuuden loppupuolen pääteemana. Albumin kannessakin on kuvattu vauvantulojuhlia.
  
  Teoksen kuvaus lesbouden moninaisuudesta, rakkaudesta, ystävyydestä ja ajankuvasta tuntuu uskottavalta. Teos on rehellinen, ronski ja paikoin vilahtelee paljasta pintaakin.
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  Katri

  Bechdelin Hautuukoti on kevyesti yksi parhaimpia koskaan lukemiani sarjakuvia, ja sen innoittamana päätin lukea kirjailijalta muutakin.
  
  Leppakoelämää on hauska strippityylinen sarjakuva, joka kertoo lesboystävysten elämästä arjen ja ihmissuhteiden pyörityksessä. Olen pitänyt kovasti sarjakuvien avoimuudesta ja ajankuvasta. Jatko-osat luen myös.
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  Printable Tire

  So there I was at a cafe reading Dykes to Watch Out For, thinking about buying a gourmet popsicle, when the krishna paraded by.
  
  Objectively cute and funny and likable, very much unlike Fun Home, which I found to be insufferably pretentious.
  
  
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  Jascie

  I love this strip, I've been reading them since I came out. I'm dating myself, because that's been awhile........
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  Eric Ariza

  Interesante atlas sobre antropología lésbica.
  
  Sinceramente venía con el listón demasiado alto tras leer "Fun Home" e iba con las expectativas algo altas. Son obras muy diferentes entre sí pero, como he leído en otras reseñas, es útil para valorar la evolución de la autora.
  
  En una sociedad donde la bollería es y ha sido invisible para la humanidad estándar y normativa hay que agradecer la existencia de obras como estas. Aunque actualmente podría clasificarse su visión como topicazo máximo, no dudo de la utilidad de la obra. Tanto para las mujeres lesbianas de la época como para las milennials/generación Z/generación hasta el ojete es un recurso útil.
  
  Los colectivos tienen la peculiaridad que unir las diferencias personales. La capacidad de crear una cultura y un discurso en torno a la identidad me parece algo brutal y súper humano. Como seres sociales que somos, leer que existen personas similares a ti, reduce la ansiedad que causa la mera existencia. Terrible el ser humano.
  
  Recomendable. No es una fantasía pero la autora es TOP.
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  Arlie

  Pretty cool to read the comic that originated the Bechdel test. It's definitely a problematic piece of its time, but I'm glad I read it. Quick and funny.
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  Juan Pablo

  Divertidísimo. Y también tierno. Muy recomendable.
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  sj

  fun fun
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  Clau Nyappy

  Disfrute mucho las tiras de Bechdel, aunque no todas, con algunas no sentí conexión pero entiendo el porqué, still que gran mujer
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  Carlos Recamán

  Ojalá Bechdel me cayera un poco mejor :(
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  Eve Kay

  Wonderfully funny look into the lives of lesbian women in the 90s. I so wish I had known about this in the 90s myself, it would have been an eyeopener.
  I thoroughly enjoyed the realism of the characters and the stories - they were little looks into the real lives of real women, there was nothing fake. Only thing tho, some things were a little clichéd but whatcha gonna do, I think a comic might not be a comic without a little cliché.
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  Reetta Saine

  Humoristinen, mutta kantaaottava sarjis ystävyspiiristä, johon mahtuu niin maailmanparantajia, taviksia, yksinäisiä kuin seksipetojakin. Lukija pääsee miettimään naisparin lapsenhankintaa, lesbohäitä ja sitä, toimiiko kapina paremmin patriarkaatin sisä- vai ulkopuolelta käsin.
  
  Tenttikirjaksi naistutkimukseen!
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  HeavyReader

  This is the first Dykes to Watch Out For collection. The characters that show up in the later books are here in an early form. These comics are not really so connected to each other as Bechdel's later comics are. It's fun to see how the writing and art developed.
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  Scott

  Reminds me of my senior year of college.
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  Devynn emory

  inspiring documentation of herstory..
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  Piia (kirjatarhuri)

  3,5⭐️
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  Audra

  Classic. Origination of the Bechdel Test. My favorite movie wins. Two women talk about a monster...
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  Mariana Flores

  Dykes to Watch Out For é uma tira cómica da autora Alison Bechdel, publicada entre 1983 e 2008. Já era uma grande fã da Alison depois de ler as suas novelas gráficas Fun Home e Are you my Mother? e tinha curiosidade em ler este seu trabalho mais icónico.
  
  São tiras cómicas, bem dispostas, mordazes. Gosto do humor de Alison e irei com certeza ler mais. A maioria das coisas poderia aplicar-se a relações no geral, não necessariamente apenas a lésbicas.
  
  Esta foi uma das primeiras representações de lésbicas nos media e foi daqui que surgiu o “Bechdel test”, inspirado nas palavras de Virginia Woolf em A Room of One’s Own:
  
  “All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple. … And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. … They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that …”
  
  Segundo esta teoria de Bechdel, para passar no teste um filme precisaria de:
  
  Ter pelo menos duas personagens femininas
  Elas falarem entre si
  Sobre algo que não um homem.
  Aqui está uma curiosa lista de 10 filmes que falham o teste:
  
  A trilogia do Senhor dos Anéis
  Avatar
  Slumdog Millionaire
  The Avengers
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  The Social Network
  Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
  La La Land
  E uma lista de 10 filmes que passaram no teste:
  
  Guardians of the Galaxy
  Interstellar
  Blackswan
  The Help
  Inception
  Star Trek
  The Dark Knight
  Little Miss Sunshine
  V for Vendetta
  American Beauty
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  Blake Williams

  this is so early that 1) Mo literally does not exist as a character in it and 2) Lois looks almost heterosexual, even in comparison to how she starts to dress in 1987 when "The Essential DTWOF" picks up. you get the idea that Bechdel wanted Lois to be the main character originally but she seems to be too cool to represent the kind of person who reads DTWOF (myself included) and that's why she had to invent a weird awkward nerd character like Mo