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August 08, 2005
9 to 5
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But it also made me kind of depressed. Like, it made me really,really wish I was there in the late '70s and early-to-mid '80s, whenthere was a big, kinda mainstream feminist movement. What Ireally like about 9-to-5 is how non-indivdualist the message is and howearnest it is. I mean, there are a lot of '80s movies about'strong women,' even ones in suits, but the heroine's triumph oversexist assumptions and blahdiblah in the business world (you know,besides making it with a shiny-toothed man) is always anexceptional, personal triumph. I mean, she may be VP, but noother woman is getting any help from her. 9 to 5 has a lovely,indulging fantasy to it-- of hogtieing the boss and unmanning him withDays of Our Lives and soap digests-- but it also outlines what it wouldtake to make the workplace more fair and equitable and just all-aroundbetter: daycare, flexible hours and job-share, employer-sponsered AAmeetings, and a more personal touch (i.e. house plants and schoolpictures). The working mothers and wheel-chair using person inthe final scene, when you see the new, improved workplace? Thetotally gratuitous sex-positive speech Jane Fonda gives herex-husband? Fuck yes, I love this movie.
I know it's unhip to rat on whatever feminishy movement is aroundthese days. No, it's not that I want to complain about'third-wave' feminism, but after watching 9 to 5, I just feel likewhatever feminist sentiment remains these days is channeled into suchsmall, such personal feats of self-expression or visibility ortheorizing or blahdiblah or else into expressing how omnipresentinjustice and fucked-upness is and how it is impossible to reallychange the system in any meaningful way. Sometimes I just wantsomething neat and practical, like the ERA, that I could get behind.
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Posted by hissycat at August 8, 2005 04:40 PM
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