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I hate old movies where the women work for the men and the men treat them like they're helpless. I think it's degrading.
Did I mention how terrible this movie is (I'm watching it now).
It's disgusting. Like, she'd really fall for such a lug head. A lug head must have written this script. It wasn't a woman...that's for sure.
He loves her?! Are you kidding me? This is a joke.
Honestly, this guy has got no redeeming qualities.
This is the moral: women are stupid.
Pretty good, I'd say. Always falling for the men who've got nothing going for them.
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What movie?
And I hate that too--but it definitely seems like it was more acceptable back in say... 1930-1950 etc.
Is there a hint of feminism in your voice? And by feminism, I just mean, the belief that women are capable and equally important as men.
The Pajama Game. That's the movie.
Sometimes I don't read as closely as I should and I make a total musk ox of myself.
I thought as I was writing this, "Gee, I sound like a feminist. Maybe I am." I am when I'm sick of lug head men thinking they can pull the moves on "helpless" capable women. It's disgusting.
I agree. Although I appreciate the old Doris Day comedies, or other films of the period in some ways, in others they are grating and degrading. Take, for example, "Lover Come Back"--about man who lies to her about his identity, gets her drunk, then she marries him. Or "Pillow Talk" about a man who philanders unabashedly, lies to her about his identity, then she marries him. Such are your pre-"revolutionary" or pre-"liberated" romantic comedies. Take another film about male deception from a decade later, albeit not with Doris Day, yet after the inception of the NEW American Cinema called "Cactus Flower" (1969)--about a middle-aged dentist (Walter Matthau) who is single but pretends to be married so the young Goldie Hawn (nominated for Best Supporting Actress) will date him--then when she attempts to kill herself because they can never be together for real, he stages a divorce from the middle-aged woman who is his assistant (played by the incomparable Ingrid Bergman). WHAT?!?! Okay--in the end, he and Ingrid end up getting together and Goldie Hawn ends up with the boy next door, but what woman in her right mind would respect that man? And yes--a man wrote that script (I.A.L. Diamond--he wrote one of the greatest scripts of all time in conjunction with writing partner Billy Wilder--SOME LIKE IT HOT, but even Wilder has those deplorable moments in his nearly impeccable repertoire, but at least they are frequently acknowledged as flawed situations), and "The Pajama Game" was written by a man, based on the broadway musical (choreographed by Bob Fosse--still a man). The film business has been and still continues to be mostly a "good old boys" business. Now, in spite of all this I still watch these films and hope for some redemptive moments--hmmmm. Now I am sure Brecken would add in her opinion of "Pride and Prejudice" as a dressed-up version of a Doris Day subservient mess--but that's for another post.
Correction--Goldie Hawn WON the Oscar for "Cactus Flower"
Now get back to work
PS--love the term "lug head"
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