The Christmas movie showing in the dining hall was interesting. In previous years we've had "The Grinch", "A Christmas Carol", "Gremlins" and "It's a Wonderful Life". This year, in a slight change from tradition, we had the remake of "The Wicker Man".
Many of the older male Beaker Folk spoke wistfully of the original, and especially of Britt Ekland's part in it.
But we decided to go with the remake. Overall I now feel quite ambivalent.
Obviously, anything that ends up with Nicholas Cage having his legs broken before being burnt to death will never be short of laughs. But a film where a sinister and power-mad woman rules a community with a rod of iron, while all the men are gormless, useless drones - where do they get these ideas from?
Surely the Amazons were a community where women were reputed to be the Warrior Class and males were their servants and concubines.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure about Beaker Folk, but if in terms of time lines they meet, than Dynamic, Forceful, Beaker Women might well have come to dominate the weaker sex.
And since there is a female as Arch Druid in the Beaker Folk community today, it would seem that history has repeated itself.
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Margaret Thatcher as a role model???
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