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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 21:55:02 GMT
Just watching this now and it’s making me SO angry I cannot believe how arrogant and pompous men of that time were and had been previously. Yes I know it’s only a film but women have had to put up with a heap of **** in the past haven’t they ? (And still do in some places) And to think all that was taking place just 100 years ago ? Only a year before my Mum was born ! Although discrimination was still rife (especially in the workplace) well in to the 70’s and 80’s. Funny old world eh ? Why can’t people just be respectful and accepting to each other as equals ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 22:00:04 GMT
PS what the hell accent is Meryl Streep trying to do ?
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Post by Miranda on Feb 3, 2018 22:12:30 GMT
What's Meryl Streep doing in it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 22:12:58 GMT
Quite !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 22:22:19 GMT
She’s playing Emmeline Pankhurst! Why? Aren’t there enough good British actors who could play the part ?
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Post by cakewalk on Feb 3, 2018 22:23:55 GMT
I'm watching tha and am full of admiration for all the women involved. I'm impressed that women of all classes involved themselves and this was clearly the birth of feminism as I understand it today.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 22:25:23 GMT
Aimed at the American market maybe though God only knows why ...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 22:29:42 GMT
I'm watching tha and am full of admiration for all the women involved. I'm impressed that women of all classes involved themselves and this was clearly the birth of feminism as I understand it today. I admire these ladies too but whenever “feminism” is mentioned I think of the bra burners of the sixties and not these women who were basically righting a fundamental wrong in society at that time |
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Post by undertheparapet on Feb 4, 2018 15:49:11 GMT
I’m sure you didn’t mean to imply that all fundamental wrongs in society (related to feminist agendas) had been righted by the 60s?
Even equal pay for men and women doing similarly skilled jobs didn’t happen till 1972. Not that the BBC executives appear to be aware of that...........
I also have a vivid memory of being asked by a finance company to get my father to act as guarantor for a car HP agreement in 1973, when I was 23 years old, in a properly salaried job and earning about the same as my Dad and possibly slightly more than the junior car salesman
and as for the casting couch......maybe that isn’t fundamentally wrong enough?
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Post by Miranda on Feb 4, 2018 16:14:57 GMT
I'm watching tha and am full of admiration for all the women involved. I'm impressed that women of all classes involved themselves and this was clearly the birth of feminism as I understand it today. I admire these ladies too but whenever “feminism” is mentioned I think of the bra burners of the sixties and not these women who were basically righting a fundamental wrong in society at that time I think you are fairly young? It might be worth you studying a bit more of the history of feminism. The women in the 60s were also righting a fundamental wrong in society. Several of them in fact. We Western women have come far in the last 200 years. But the fight is not over yet. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 19:36:10 GMT
My grandmother was a suffragette. One of the reasons I always vote.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 19:39:21 GMT
How interesting cuddles, I hope you got a lot of information from her, so often we leave it too late to ask and a fascinating piece of family history is lost. Mine wasn’t but I always vote because I respect what those women suffered to get it for me.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 4, 2018 19:53:21 GMT
Same reason I vote. Women suffered forcefeeding to get me the vote. It's a waste of their sacrifice not to use it.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 8, 2018 12:51:54 GMT
I remember in the 80s being told by a salesman that I would need my husbands signature to purchase a new window. I asked him why he needed that when I clearly had the capacity to make the decision. He said it was company policy and husbands had to sign agreements. I didn't buy the window from him. I also remember in the 70s when married women were entitled to have their names on rent books alongside their husbands, blimey there were so many arguments in the Housing Dept reception, mostly from men who were outraged about it. Why? It meant that if there wives wanted a divorce suddenly they would have somewhere to live, believe me the threat of being homeless kept many women in a loveless relationship, some families would never have taken them back if they had left their husbands due to the scandal and the stupid idea that you had made your bed and had to lie in it, even if that included a battering every Friday night!!! Many women who didn't work were not allowed joint accounts at banks unless their husbands agreed and banks would often recommend a little house keeping account, you know, just so that the little woman didn't find out how much the husband earned. I remember having a part time job after school in a building contractors and they produce two pay slips - one to show the wife and one to show the tax man!!
We still have a long way to go!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 13:01:15 GMT
When we applied for a mortgage my wages weren’t taken into account because obviously I would become pregnant and have to give up work so only my husband to be could have his earnings included in the calculations !
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Anymore to come?
