On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:39:41AM -0800, Penberriss Wendy S. wrote:
--- 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?
*Excuse me*?
I'm starting to wonder where you're coming from here, exaggerating the tiniest slight into something grandeously malevolent.
Avon (a) didn't look like a bastard and (b) didn't in any way shape or form either figuratively or literally "kick her in the teeth".
Granted, the episode was silly, but the best part of it was watching Avon be uncomfortable with all that (hero) worship.
Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Oh! By the time the oxygen runs out, we'll be bored as well as dead." -- Soolin (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4])