Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton's exclusive, all-male eating clubs continue to attract national attention to the New Jersey campus, as two of the clubs recently filed federal lawsuits to maintain their single-sex status, while a third club settled a dispute out of court...
...probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...
Hawn herself plays out a stereotype in the movie, her self-stereotype. She plays a woman entering a field that is male dominated, not unlike her character in Private Benjamin, but her Molly does very little besides playing off of all the various flat and stereotypical characters in the movie. Her role requires little acting, just reacting; to her husband demanding she quit her job, to her team when they haze her, to her kid when she dyes her hair. Even her final, climactic decision to fight her husband only comes after the football team pressures her. By being...
Wertmuller is, of course, attempting to stage another attack on the male macho principle in this, her newest film The audience gets several tedious verbal and visual lectures on the beauty of female sexuality. Large sculptures of ancient fertility deities serve as a backdrop as Oscar's wife discusses the oppression of women through the ages. Most of the male characters are portrayed with the same comic flatness that marked and marred Steven Speilberg's The Color Purple. Men fight ridiculous fights, and say ridiculous things in bed, while they garner physical pleasures from Wertmuller's beautiful bisexual females...
When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...