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I recently went down a bit of a rabbit hole and learned about "pre-code" Hollywood. There's actually a 1933 movie called "Baby Face" that features a woman who d
by hotpotamus 4y ago
I recently went down a bit of a rabbit hole and learned about "pre-code" Hollywood. There's actually a 1933 movie called "Baby Face" that features a woman who does basically sleep her way to the top of a company (despite being pre-code, it's still quite chaste by modern standards and much is left to implication, but it's not subtle). So the trope does indeed have some history.
- etchalon 4y agoThe notion that the reason certain groups of people aren't taken seriously in certain roles is because of "D&I" or "AA" is flatly ahistorical. Certain people just refuse to accept certain groups of people are capable of accomplishment without outside help or uniquely uncommon circumstances. But every generation finds some excuse that their prejudices are "rational".
- yucky 4y agoCertain people just refuse to accept certain groups of people are capable of accomplishment without outside help or uniquely uncommon circumstances. Sounds like the solution then is to remove that outside help, and thus all doubt. Right?
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