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...which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist oppressor, a supporter of patriarchy, and even the most self-righteously "liberated" male is probably just using his so-called "raised consciousness" as a weapon for sexual conquest...
...political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist Minerva Astrology Collective. The overwhelming emphasis, however, is clearly on women within a sexist society fashioning their own separate institutions embodying the feminist principles of egalitarianism and collectivism...
Senator William Proxmire, a staunch opponent of the confirmation of Carlo Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is no sexist. He also gave Carla's husband, Roderick Hills, 44, a grilling. During Senate hearings to consider the appointment of Hills as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Proxmire recalled that once while jogging to Capitol Hill he had encountered a former SEC chairman riding to work in a limousine. Would Hills require a limousine? "I shall not," he replied, but added, "nor shall I jog." Hills told the Senators he would share his wife...
Wertmuller's failure to overcome the sexist stereotypes she depicts cannot be excused as incidental, as a flawed execution of good intentions that can be minimized in interpreting the film. Her inability to carry out the comic project she creates for herself in the first half of film shows that the fantasy situation is more compelling to her than any understanding of the dilemmas of traditional sexual roles...
...makes political films to reach a mass audience, by which she presumably means the working class. If Swept Away does reach a mass audience, as its current success suggests it may, no working class viewer will recognize its political intentions. He will only see a great love story reaffirming sexist roles, and in so doing he will not misread Wertmuller's true feelings...