Can I point out that it is perfectly possible to loathe Ashes to Ashes without being this shallow?
Of course! But the people who think like that weren't writing the reviews I read. Of course, a LoM comm probably wasn't the best place to look for an open-minded attitude to Ashes to Ashes, but still...
as of course Alex does in that scene where they strip her and paint something on her naked backside but it's all good natured joshing and if only women would realise this they'd get on much better in the workplace,/i>
I didn't think that was the message at all. It struck me as genuinely humiliating, and as her mother points outs out afterwards, it's symbolic f the difficult compromises women have to make in a male-doiminated work environment.
(there's a vomitorious scene between Alex and Gene in the bistro in which she pretty much says as much)
I haven't got to that one yet, so I shall have to reserve judgment, bit it doesn't sound promising :-(
b) are too unintelligent/weakwilled/humourless to deal with it "properly"
This is another "different readings" moment - because I felt, watching the harassment that we've seen so far, that there isn't a proper way of dealing with it, not by an individual, but that Alex can handle it because she genuinely believes all these men are figments of her imagination and therefore it doesn't matter if they hate her. It gives her a strength that a woman in that position wouldn't have in real life.
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Of course! But the people who think like that weren't writing the reviews I read. Of course, a LoM comm probably wasn't the best place to look for an open-minded attitude to Ashes to Ashes, but still...
as of course Alex does in that scene where they strip her and paint something on her naked backside but it's all good natured joshing and if only women would realise this they'd get on much better in the workplace,/i>
I didn't think that was the message at all. It struck me as genuinely humiliating, and as her mother points outs out afterwards, it's symbolic f the difficult compromises women have to make in a male-doiminated work environment.
(there's a vomitorious scene between Alex and Gene in the bistro in which she pretty much says as much)
I haven't got to that one yet, so I shall have to reserve judgment, bit it doesn't sound promising :-(
b) are too unintelligent/weakwilled/humourless to deal with it "properly"
This is another "different readings" moment - because I felt, watching the harassment that we've seen so far, that there isn't a proper way of dealing with it, not by an individual, but that Alex can handle it because she genuinely believes all these men are figments of her imagination and therefore it doesn't matter if they hate her. It gives her a strength that a woman in that position wouldn't have in real life.