--- Tavia Chalcraft tavia@btinternet.com wrote:
Wendy wrote:
No, sorry Neil but Deliverance is far
moremisogynistic than Power.
In Deliverance Meegat istotally subservient to Lord
Avon. She's incapable
of launching the rocket herself and requires a man
to do it. The rocket is
nothing more than a crude metaphorand once the gene
bank is launched Avon leaves her, to die presumably.
I saw Meegat as a joke intended largely to humanise Avon.
What does this mean? So having a woman act all pathetic and helpless around a man is a joke? And how exactly does this 'humanise' him? By making him look like a bastard for kicking her in the teeth any time she bows down?
The more misogynistic part of the episode was Jenna's capture
and her inability to escape without rescue from three men.
This isn't more misogynistic, but it's just as bad granted.
Wendy
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