Reply #48: Do you think the media encourages that attitude

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or that the media doesn't matter that much.


It seemed like a pretty big leap, for instance when Mary Tyler Moore went from playing the wife/mother in the Dick Van Dyke show to playing the career woman in the Mary Tyler Moore show. The leap being that the country had changed enough to make that possible.

I wonder if we are headed backward as reflected in the movies mentioned - like Spanglish ( I haven't seen it) and that the backward motion will have a snowballing effect.

I just recently saw the movie Mona Lisa Smiles - an interesting movie in light of this discussion - being about what life/expectations were like for women in the 50's and women who were breaking out...