It's not a surprise.
By the early-'90s, the feminist movement had been bastardized (pardon the pun) from being the constructive entity it had originally been to becoming a "there are no bad women, at all" movement. One that literally argued angrily that no woman has ever lied or been guilty of anything ever, and no man has ever been innocent of anything. Ever.
"Male" is the root of "malevolent."
And if any woman had ever done anything legitimately wrong (let alone abusive or evil) at any time, it was just a result of patriarchal culture oppressing her, not her own lack of character as an individual.
No woman was ever truly culpable. Ever.
The rhetoric got this bad by 1993 when this TV movie was made. And Judith Light stated that the feminist movement saw the film as "anti-woman" (because it wasn't 100% complimentary towards all women).
That's regrettable, because while that attitude didn't hurt men per se, it inevitably had a destructive effect on feminism itself --- at least, long term.
Because the "men=bad/women=good" dynamic is an obvious lie. And while lies can energize one's group short-term because lies flood the blood stream with adrenaline, in the long run, the healthier people you'd ideally want in your movement start wandering away from it. And then, irresponsible people (who are just looking for a personal platform from which they cannot be argued) move to the center of that movement and exacerbate the hyperbolic dialogue all the more, damaging the movement further. (And then, once that happpens, claim a wave of "anti-feminism" is sweeping the culture and the media).
In fact, it seems to be an unavoidable stage all successful social movements go through. It's a kind of growing pains for a movement: once it attains a certain cultural saturation, the movement starts looking around for new things to posture about, which always results in a kind of rigidly simplistic reverse-bigotry (within the movement, at least) for a while. Because once you start looking around for new things to posture about, you run the risk of becoming a little less right than you originally were.
It just happens.
Thank goodness the women's movement seems to have (mostly) come out of that stage. But they do have a history of working the phones to keep certain shows and movies they don't "like" off the air.... And in some cases, quite unjustly.
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Non-sequiturs are delicious.
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