a solid essential for understanding second wave

happy 2,000th film logged to me, gender is a construct :)

“To me, feelings about myself may be kind of dominated - I mean about me as an individual - are really dominated by me as a wife and me as a mother.”

There’s a sense of inherent doom that comes with being female. The expectation to completely devote yourself to your family at one point or another. It’s not a horrible thought - but it’s the expectation...

Huge respect to Reichert and Klein for  incorporating stories across lines of race and socioeconomic status at a time when no one was asking for it. The voice of this still holds up in a massive way.

We’re all born naked and the rest is bleak social conditioning

They forgot to add horror music in the background.

Forget your slashers, your gorefests, your thrillers - THIS is a horror movie. The scene where a guidance counselor calmly explains that married life is essentially female slavery, while all the light goes out of her 16-year-old student’s eyes - harrowing.

So depressing, so recent.

a truly great and comprehensive film, even with such a short run time. just genuinely such a great look ay the state of women, in 1971 and today. it is so painful to look at how much has not changed, and then to be reminded that we are also losing the ability we have to conceptualize and understand and challenge our oppression, that we’re losing our capacity for the kind of consciousness raising that growing up female provides. still, i am glad that works such as these were made and continue to provide us with the opportunity to contemplate the female experience and develop our own class consciousness

*Criterion Channel 
start time 1:06pm

interesting how much (and how little) has changed in about a half of a century. this has gotten me excited for the collection on the channel nonetheless!

Men are be duty-bound to watch this film to see how the patriarchal system continues to work in their favor.  Now, most sensible men in 2021 aren’t going to say the outrageous things that many of the men interviewed here would, we still have a long way to go (see prevalence of sexual assault / harassment and the wage gape).

men :(

this made me sad. it was both like...a time capsule and also a jarring look at how little has changed. gender is so fake!!!

also we got a little bit of intersectionality as a treat.

Wow thank GOD for feminism. Can’t wait for people to watch doc from 2021 and say the same but wow I hate that this was/is a way of thinking

They forgot to add horror music in the background.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I’d love to see either a follow up with the women featured in the film and/or a modern day version of this film to see how much or how little has changed.

Interesting short 1971 documentary that spends time with half a dozen different women at varying stages and asks mostly non-invasive questions about gender roles at the time. Fascinating look at the sort of societal factors that spurred the women's lib movement. Makes a great pairing with an even shorter documentary from the same year called Janie's Janie, which focuses on a single mother of multiple children who has recently asked her husband to hit the road, to find life more difficult than she suspected. Rather than buckling in despair (which would be my preferred strategy) she looks into some neighborhood organizing to help a fledgling day care, and takes on a dismissive electric company. Both films are great.

Forget your slashers, your gorefests, your thrillers - THIS is a horror movie. The scene where a guidance counselor calmly explains that married life is essentially female slavery, while all the light goes out of her 16-year-old student’s eyes - harrowing.

So depressing, so recent.

a truly great and comprehensive film, even with such a short run time. just genuinely such a great look ay the state of women, in 1971 and today. it is so painful to look at how much has not changed, and then to be reminded that we are also losing the ability we have to conceptualize and understand and challenge our oppression, that we’re losing our capacity for the kind of consciousness raising that growing up female provides. still, i am glad that works such as these were made and continue to provide us with the opportunity to contemplate the female experience and develop our own class consciousness

Well-made doc, worth it for the period-specific discourse and eyewear.