Film · France · 1906
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The Consequences of Feminism
46Watch it awake.
A farce about who does the housework, and the laugh takes a side.
The review
Men sew, mind the children, and get courted. Women drink and take the active role. Alice Guy, 1906, a farce that reverses a household. A house can watch it. I am too tired to act surprised by which chores keep a place standing. The joke only works if you see which work the picture thinks belongs to whom.
Call it an argument wearing a farce. I won't invent a speech for either side. If we watch it, the useful piece is the next ordinary hour: who sews, who has the child, who is out being courted, and whether we live by the assignment this picture is laughing at.
Journal
Keep The Consequences of Feminism in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Courage and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Ice Age
58 instead of 46
Ice Age is still a comedy film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is courage: The tiger was the danger.
The eight
- 6Industry
Sewing and minding children are the jobs the farce gives the men.
- 7Household
Men mind children and get courted; women drink and lead.
- 3Piety
It is a farce about chores, not a conscience that stops anyone.
- 2Courage
No one gives up a real good; they play the other side's chores.
- 5Republic
Who owes the housework is the claim the farce is arguing.
- 4Temperance
Women drink in the reversal, and the drink is part of the laugh.
- 5Truth
The joke depends on a fixed idea of whose work is whose.
- 5Stewardship
Child-minding and sewing are the goods the reversal moves.
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