Xavier: “I don’t remember this movie being so rapey.”
Liam: “Um, yeah…there are consent issues all over this thing.”
Xavier: “It’s like they think setting sexual assault to song makes it allowable.”
Liam: “Seriously, this is just a bunch of hillbillies kidnapping women they can’t have, only instead of a cargo van, they have a horses and a wagon.”
Me: “Well…so much for family movie night.”
***Seriously though…glad the consent conversations seem to be paying off.***
Fisticuffs and Shenanigans 
Wow! This used to be one of my favorite musicals! Good job on teaching them values.
I have such warm memories of it…and now, cringy. *sigh* lol
LOL!! Never thought about that but then again it has been many years since I saw that movie…🤔
I didn’t either, because it’s been a zillion years, and then…yeah…
OK, so I’d never even heard of this movie, so I just watched some of it, and…
It did have some quasi-disturbing women-as-possessions overtones (in the video of one scene I watched) but the dancing is very nice.
Oh, the dancing is fabulous! lol
If you ever wonder if or how much our cultural values have progressed, just watch a movie from the 50’s to 70’s!!! Even watching movies from the 80’s can be a shock sometimes.
Like Back to the Future? Soooo awful.
I think then that you and I make two of the very few Americans who don’t like that movie!
YES! If you hate Grease, too…we’re forming a club.
I used to love Grease, but haven’t seen it in 20 years. Chances are I’d hate it now. And I ALWAYS hated how Sandy changed herself.
Agreed! Worst message ever!
Sandy was HOT! Overly made-up Sandy smoking a cigarette? No so much.
I guess we are now a club of two. You can be president.
That’s a parenting win right there!
I’m taking it, because I’ve failed at “pick up your own underwear” and “putting shit back where you found it”.
Precisely what I think of the holiday favorite, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” I want someone to record the song with the gender roles switched. Let an assertive singer like Mavis Staples hound some dulcet Rod Stewart crooner to “listen to the fireplace roar.”
LOL…EXACTLY! That song makes me insane!
Somehow, I am reminded of the Rape of the Sabine Women in early Roman history. The original title for the movie, BTW was something like ‘the sobbing women.’ Don’t think that would have made it big in the theater. –Curt
Half the score of the movie is dedicated to that story…only without the word “rape”. Jesus, Hollywood…even back then…just…seriously.
Seriously!
Loved the music and dancing in the day and had a crush on Howard Kiel, saw him later on in local theatre, great voice and hair . The 50’s now wonder I MARCHED,,
Now I have to Google Howard Kiel…sigh
Just watched a comedy sketch about how many eighties movies made super problematic jokes/plotlines out of lighthearted sexual assault situations. Great post! Look forward to seeing more from you soon