Perhaps related to Marlo's feminist sensibility at the time, and definitely to my prepubescent crush on her in the early 70s, this note from the wikis I find just now as I went back to find out more about the show:
"In 1968, shortly after the feminist protest against bras and other feminine products at the Miss America pageant, Marlo Thomas began going braless on That Girl. "God created women to bounce," Thomas said. "So be it." On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> 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. >> >> If I watched it as a kid, it didn't leave an impression on me. I know > I've seen Thomas in other things, and I get some of the pop-culture > references made related to That Girl, but I think the pilot (free on > iTunes) was the first full episode I watched. I had it on while doing > housework and there wasn't a point when I was interested enough to stop > cleaning and focus on the show. I only likened it to Breakfast At Tiffanys > because both characters seemed to have a free-spirited attitude, yet still > clung to men (or the need for men -- I only recently learned that Truman > Capote originally intended for Paul to be a gay man in Breakfast At > Tiffanys... what that means for the sexist angle is more than I could say). > I'm trying to think of what else might have been on in the mid to late '60s > that I could compare it to in terms of degree of sexism, but everything I > can think of still has a man riding to the rescue of a woman, even if only > as a comedic element to a sitcom. > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
