I've started to avoid anything J/E for reasons like this. The Will bashing is bad enough, but the trend you're talking about is kinda scary. (It makes me see a The Handmaiden's Tale future. O_o )
"My two favorite arguments..." Sexuality is only empowering if you already have the respect of the men you're using it on and if he feels the same way. And if you dig deeply enough into historical record, you find that there have always been women who have chosen to make it without that kind of help from a man. (So, yeah, youth and ignorance are a big annoyance factor for me with the J/E crowd.)
...given that in the first movie, Elizabeth proved she could hold her own..." I wonder if Elizabeth wasn't portrayed as "using her sex" in DMC, because she was dressed as a boy most of the time. I suspect the writers/producers were afraid she'd look "too masculine" otherwise. ('Cause, yah know, the audience might just forget she really was a girl. *rolls eyes*)
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Date: 2006-08-06 03:44 am (UTC)"My two favorite arguments..."
Sexuality is only empowering if you already have the respect of the men you're using it on and if he feels the same way. And if you dig deeply enough into historical record, you find that there have always been women who have chosen to make it without that kind of help from a man. (So, yeah, youth and ignorance are a big annoyance factor for me with the J/E crowd.)
...given that in the first movie, Elizabeth proved she could hold her own..."
I wonder if Elizabeth wasn't portrayed as "using her sex" in DMC, because she was dressed as a boy most of the time. I suspect the writers/producers were afraid she'd look "too masculine" otherwise. ('Cause, yah know, the audience might just forget she really was a girl. *rolls eyes*)