Oh, yeah, they were pretty good in that regard. I was more talking about the kind of stuff they had them doing, versus the kind of stuff they had the men doing.I dunno. Certainly it was a different time with different expectations for how men and women should behave, but I'd say all three of those women were rich, strong characters in their own ways. Ginger may have been a sexpot, but she quickly transcended her initial Marilyn-clone persona to become smart, savvy, and calculating, very much owning her own sexuality and using it to her advantage rather than the men's. Mrs. Howell could be clueless and unable to see beyond her bubble of privilege, but she had a strength of character and dignity that helped maintain civility on the island. And Mary Ann was just about the most level-headed, sensible person on the island, in her grass-roots way. They were far more than just window dressing.
I'm thinking more in terms of shows that marginalize their female characters or fail to individualize them, neither of which was the case with Gilligan. Rather than having a single token female with a generic "female" personality, they had women making up nearly half the cast and all being as distinct and individual from each other as the men were.
Oh, yeah, they were pretty good in that regard. I was more talking about the kind of stuff they had them doing, versus the kind of stuff they had the men doing.
Except the way that they divided the labor was pretty sexist.division of labour.
if one of them works out of the house, the other one should take care of the house and children.
That's fair.
It gets sexist when they both work, and the woman still has to do all the housework.
It really amazes me that anyone could watch the show and try to tell me it wasn't sexist. I understand that was just the way most shows did things back then, but looking at it today it looks pretty sexist.
If Darrin worked in a factory and did hard labour, and came home broken... That's a fair exchange of labour for cleaning the house and raising the kid.Except the way that they divided the labor was pretty sexist.
It really amazes me that anyone could watch the show and try to tell me it wasn't sexist. I understand that was just the way most shows did things back then, but looking at it today it looks pretty sexist.
It's a great show overall, and a lot of fun, but this is the kind of thing that stands out today.
I hope the day gets saved at the end of the series because Skeletor still has the Xmas spirit from the holiday episode.
Yeah, okay, not directly connected, but I love Murrell's show, and my guess is there's at least some interest for this episode here.
Don't judge. Frank Langella was amazing in it, I don't care what you're all thinking.
Thank you for posting that, I agree with him almost word for word on every aspect. Nice to see I'm not alone, as you can see from my comment earlier in the year:
No, I actually agree with what you're saying here, it was directed at @Guy Gardener.I don't know if you're referring to me, but I never said it wasn't sexist. I said that, within the context of the inherent sexism of the time it was made in, Gilligan's Island nonetheless managed to treat its female characters well as characters, making them distinct individuals who were often relevant to the stories, in contrast to the kind of shows I was originally talking about that reduced their sole female regular to a token. I wasn't disagreeing with the premise that it was sexist, just contextualizing it. More than one thing can be true about a show at the same time.
OK, I think I missed something, because I'm not quite sure how this relates to whether or not Gilligan's Island was sexist.If Darrin worked in a factory and did hard labour, and came home broken... That's a fair exchange of labour for cleaning the house and raising the kid.
Darrin thought for a living, and not that hard, and Sam seemed to come up with most of his good ideas, but he earned ten times the wages of a factory labourer.
So to be fair...
Samantha should be looking after a house ten times the size with ten times the children to keep the equation even.
Maid's Alice and Hazel did everything for the TV Mom's on Brady Bunch and Hazel. Is that fair? Moms who do not clean and ignore their children, as daddy works all day and pays for the maid?
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/li...orence-henderson-carol-brady-job-brady-bunch/
Then there's the meth problem.
Urban legend would have us believe that all the middle class house wives were on diet pills.
They had 5 times as much strength and speed than the drunky dad, and they hardly remembered any of their toil.
Raising kids without Meth, now that's hard.
No, I actually agree with what you're saying here, it was directed at @Guy Gardener.
OK, I think I missed something, because I'm not quite sure how this relates to whether or not Gilligan's Island was sexist.
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