On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible that for the time period, "That Girl" was just much less > sexist than most other programs? The first series of Star Trek treated > women better than most programs on in the late sixties, but there's a lot > that doesn't look good now. > I'm sure that is a lot of it Dave. One of the episodes we saw had Ann hosting a dinner party for her parents and an aunt (and Donald of course). The Aunt kept bragging about how her daughter was married and had a home and (I can't remember, maybe a kid already, or at least well on the way), intending a negative contrast with Ann who was still single pushing 30, and living "alone" in Manhattan (quotation marks because in retrospect it seems obvious Donald must have been sleeping over often and banging her regularly). In the end, Ann's parents are able to express their pride in their daughter's independence (though she still regularly depends on Daddy and Donald to bail her out of various crises, and she is quickly thrown into various tizzy fits by seemingly small challenges). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
