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...hair glows around him like a halo, Sarastro is presented as a wise, paternal New Testament God. The Queen is very female and very nasty, the kind of role Bette Davis made unforgettable. Her malevolent, teeth-gnashing character is a product of the Mason's profound anti-female bias (as Sarastro explains the abduction to Pamina: "You need a man to guide you."). Prince Tamino, the initiate-to-be, has both ineffable simplicity and moral sturdiness. A trusting character, he's not terribly bright. He understands nothing of the immortal intrigues going on above his head, and proves his virtue...
Papageno's fate has often been taken as proof of Mozart's aristocratic bias. Tamino, after all, is initiated and Papageno is not. But Mozart was not a nobleman, and his comedies often satirize aristocratic pretension. It is more likely that Mozart meant to celebrate the common man's virtues as well as the prince's, to suggest that a certain kind of lofty nobleness of character is not for everyone. Bergman took this view so much to heart that he ended the film with his own vision: Papageno and Papagena embracing in a circle of lively, tow-headed kids...
These strippers appear in a film called Woman to Woman, one of six films being presented this weekend by the Women's Film Circuit. Directed, filmed and edited by Donna Deitch, Woman to Woman is a compelling documentary, a movie made by a woman who has overcome a predominant bias in the women's movement. Rather than limiting the film's perspective to the struggle of upper or upper-middle class women for self-awareness and self-determination, it encompasses a broad spectrum of American women. Hookers, housewives, mothers, old women and young girls, all are given the opportunity...
Wilson cited an article he wrote for the October 12 New York Times Magazine, in which he said, "When any genetic bias is demonstrated, it cannot be used to justify a continuing practice in present and future societies...
...inadequacy of the paternalism of the past, many professionals are concerned about the danger of public responses based on emotional appeal and on inadequate information and perspective. It is sad and discouraging that a meeting held to discuss this problem should be reported in terms that reinforce the bias that is under discussion. Bernard D. Davis Adele Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology