DVD Talk review of 'Auntie Mame'
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DVD Talk review of 'Auntie Mame'
I read Holly E. Ordway's DVD review of Auntie Mame at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=4901 and...I was quite shocked. I have found Ms. Ordway's taste to be suspect in the past, but the reasons she found for disliking "Auntie Mame" are so ludicrous, so obviously motivated by everything that has come to give Feminism the image of fanaticism that I simply could not stomach them. Her gripe seems quite clearly to be that we're supposed to love Auntie Mame, but that we shouldn't because she doesn't exemplify to the letter Ms. Ordway's exact idea of what a woman should and must be. We must feel contempt for Auntie Mame because she likes and wants (not needs) men, because she has had money and finds that she is inept at ordinary work, because she enjoys things "trivial" to Ms. Ordway's mind, because she isn't curing cancer and running Wall St. at the same time. To recount to Ms. Ordway the incredible merits of "Auntie Mame" would be criminally wasted effort. Her taste is her "politics", and her attitude is yet another reason that I rejoice in being gayer than a debutante in a pink ball gown. Heil Gloria Steinem!
