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I can't bring myself to watch this. Certainly improved dress, hygiene and manners wouldn't hurt current day USA but as someone who grew up when women weren't allowed to play sports, only be cheerleaders, couldn't be anything but a nurse or secretary...it seems sad and scary to be watching essentially a soap opera that celebrates all that. If you didn't hold those sorts of opinions (woman are only good for a few certain things) you were reviled, ostracized, called names.
A trip down memory lane for some
a worrisome look at the possible rollback to the future for others
I wasn't born yet at that time, but were'nt women also encouraged to become teachers, Avon ladies, dept. store clerks, waitresses, stews, beauticians, seamstresses and the like? That's still lots of options, and very feminine ones at that, which I think should be celebrated. Not all of us want to become construction workers and truck drivers. JMO.
But it is kind of amusing how unashamedly those women on the show were working toward their MRS. degrees! I don't think that would 'fly' nowadays, NPI.
Also, I think that over the past decade or so, the planes are dirtier than ever. I see trash left stuffed in the seat pockets and the cushions are stained and filthy. I think in the 80s and 90s I always boarded a clean airplane. Another reason perhaps that passengers aren't inclined to dress up anymore. What's the use of dressing up if nobody bothered to clean the cabin before I got on?
Last edited by temazepam; 09-30-2011 at 12:44 PM..
I didn't think of it in that way. Hopefully they will show some of the effort that was made in the 60's to allow women to do these things. I am going to watch but if they glorify the limited role of women in those times I probably won't continue.
In Mad Men a few women do get ahead like Peggy Olson. It did happen sometimes. And then it began to happen more and more as time went by. I am hoping that maybe the show Pan Am will bring us to the place where women are finally allowed to be pilots.
I have yet to be on a plane where the pilot was a female, AFAIK. I've only heard male voices announce, "This is your captain speaking..."
Allowed to become pilots is great, but how many actually go on to take those opportunities?
I sure wish that today's stews would smile once in a while, at least, but now they get bent out of shape for not being called the PC 'flight attendant' instead.
I have yet to be on a plane where the pilot was a female, AFAIK. I've only heard male voices announce, "This is your captain speaking..."
Allowed to become pilots is great, but how many actually go on to take those opportunities?
I have yet to be on a plane where the pilot was a female, AFAIK. I've only heard male voices announce, "This is your captain speaking..."
Allowed to become pilots is great, but how many actually go on to take those opportunities?
There are quite a few female Captains. Most came to the airlines from the military. Because there are more male Captains, the odds of flying with a male is greater. If one flies a lot then they would soon fly with a female.
I fly a lot on Southwest and have been on board with a female Captain.
I was too. Then remembered that the show is actually on Sunday nights, after Desperate Housewives! Sunday should be a new eppie, Minervah.
Whoops! My bad!
No wonder my DVR refused to record it. I have it set on "new episodes only." That dang machine was smarter than me. Thanks for the heads up.
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Sunday should be a new eppie, Minervah. 
