knudsen (09/23/82)
Two defenses of "sexism" in Off & Gent: First, the time period of the story could well have been as far back as the mid-'50s, so our modern (?) notions need not apply. More to the original point, which was that all the factory women cheered when our heroine hooked her pilot: For these blue-collar workers, who were presumably poor (remember the bad blonde's shack), marrying the right man was probably the only way out of that factory. Today, such women could go to night school at the local community college and learn computer programming or some other skill, but is a COBOL job shop that much nicer than a paper mill? (Actually, I know and admire very much several women who have worked their way up in the computing field, but they all already had been Miss-educated in college (liberal/fine arts) and came from good family backgrounds -- so I don't know how fair it is of us to expect modern behavior of the Puget Sound Debs). Someone said that the heroine had a mind and will of her own. I'll add that she also had a heart and some moral standards about just how far she would go to get a Pilot. We all cheer at the end because she got him fair and square. ... jeezz, this movie is even more old-fashioned than I thought. No wonder we loved it so much.