Injecting feminism into period shows/films
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By feminism I presume you mean portraying strong female characters who were atypical for their times, and showing any enlightened males.
It is not stupid, it is focusing on the less usual female characters.
Little Women, by your standards, was stupid feminism, as many of the female characters were strong and independent, (as was the author) and some of the men accepted this well.
It is not injecting it, if it existed then. Choosing to focus on it is a modern touch, but I find it hard to be believe that most would find it palatable for all the women to " know their place", and be quiet and acquiesce to every male characters. Or for each male character to expect it.
Choosing to focus on it is a modern touch,
Doctor Who's female companions, from the beginning in 1963, have always been strongly independent. They may have been fishes out of water upon accompanying the Doctor. Once they acclimated, they influenced and helped evolve the Doctor.
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Agreed. Heck, Emma Peel was ahead of her time for special agents.
I think the naysayers were more specifically objecting to any notions of strong and independent female characters in certain professions in the mid to late 1800's about which my comment was aimed.
You point is, however, well taken.
You just keep thinkin' Butch. That's what your good at.
The dumb thing is that if this was set when they actually met(1920) Women would have been in the UK police force and this would all feel more natural for the time. Of course that would mean Arthur Conan Doyle would be in his 60's and Harry Houdini would be in his 40's so the network experienced instant eeww for old man Doyle , hence the 1901 setting.
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shareEr, like there weren't any feminists back then? Emmeline Pankhurst anyone?
shareI know there have been feminists for a long time. For example Mary Shelley's mother was a feminist writer. The US feminist movement of the time was very involved in the abolitionist movement in the mid 1800's. So feminists are not a new invention of the mid-20th century.
shareI wish they would of treated her more like a woman doing a mans job and made the Job harder for her they didn't treat her like this was new and strange which it would have been.
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