11-25-2013, 02:25 PM
60's and even 70's television wasn't exactly a good example of role models for either gender.
I was struck when watching MeTV at a certain episode of The Brady Bunch, where Carol makes some decidedly un-liberated and un-feminist remarks about what a wife's role should be. These remarks are promptly reiterated and reinforced by her husband Mike. I guess I shouldn't have been shocked by that dialogue, but not having really lived through the 60's myself, I would have thought that the writers would have been a little more careful... I guess it wasn't until you got to the episode where Marsha tries to do things a boy would do (essentially the Boy Scouts), that the writers finally got a clue.
Edit: oh, and my goodness... Elizabeth Montgomery... wow, just wow. Nothing against Barbara Eden, but she wins that particular contest easily, IMO. And Mary Ann, definitely not Ginger.
I was struck when watching MeTV at a certain episode of The Brady Bunch, where Carol makes some decidedly un-liberated and un-feminist remarks about what a wife's role should be. These remarks are promptly reiterated and reinforced by her husband Mike. I guess I shouldn't have been shocked by that dialogue, but not having really lived through the 60's myself, I would have thought that the writers would have been a little more careful... I guess it wasn't until you got to the episode where Marsha tries to do things a boy would do (essentially the Boy Scouts), that the writers finally got a clue.
Edit: oh, and my goodness... Elizabeth Montgomery... wow, just wow. Nothing against Barbara Eden, but she wins that particular contest easily, IMO. And Mary Ann, definitely not Ginger.