Friday 18 July 2014

What the...?


Dear Creators of The Great Mouse Detective (1986),

Please explain to me how this is an okay character to include in a kid's movie. Especially a kid's movie that includes (up to this point, because I turned it off STAT) only four female characters (housekeeper, little girl/catalyst for male action, buxom pub waitress and this sultry number). Especially as a whole suggestive musical number with lyrics like "Boys, what you're hopin' for will come true, let me be good to you," and "Hey fellas,  I'll take off all my blues/Hey fellas, there's nothing I won't do just for you,"  and not just a passing shot. LIKE ACTUALLY. How is this okay?

Wednesday 2 July 2014

Always A Member of A Class

"...not that every woman is, in virtue of her sex, as strong, clever, artistic, level-headed, industrious and so forth as any man that can be mentioned; but, that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person."

Dorothy Sayers hitting it out of the park.