Mrs America (2020) - Hulu/BBC

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Thought this was really good, educational too for me. From what I've read it's pretty accurate to events - when you're making a historical drama about intellectuals and activists, you have the advantage that they all wrote a lot down. There was criticism from Steinem and others that it overplayed Schlafly's importance - STOP ERA didn't kill the ERA, men did - but idk it was clear we were only seeing a slice of events, e.g. the president and his staff was clearly doing a lot of other stuff in the 364+ days each year they weren't on screen engaging with the women's movement.

Loved spending time with all those amazing people - Flo Kennedy should have had her own episode too.

Also found this contemporary account from the NYT interesting, even if it hits a weird snarky tone in parts: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/25/archives/that-week-in-houston-it-was-said-that-the-womens-movement-was-in-a.html

mise rĂ³na (seandalai), Sunday, 9 August 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

Schlafly definitely overplayed but women visible at the forefront of regressive movements always help in increasing their visibility and credibility.

let them microwave their rice (gyac), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link


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