Good Girls Revolt 1.1

This afternoon I started Good Girls Revolt on Amazon. The series is based on Lynn Povich's book about how she and several other female researchers sued Newsweek for sexual discrimination in 1970. Aside from Nora Ephron, the real women have been replaced by fictional counterparts. I was aware of the suit before hearing about the show, but had never really looked into it. The pilot was heavyhanded, but no more so than most, and there was an annoyingly male-gazey sex scene, but I enjoyed it otherwise. I will probably read the book even if the rest of the series doesn't work for me, though hopefully it will.



But I can just FEEL those concern trolls wringing their hands about how it might give women the wrong idea about the past and how people talked and behaved then.* You know the ones I'm talking about. They like to reference Mad Men and Game of Thrones a lot. I last spotted them after the first episode of Victoria aired. I haven't looked at anything for the show yet, but I'm sure I'll spot a few as soon as I do.



*Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with objecting to something for over-modernizing a period drama, I'm just talking about the ones who get SO CONCERNED about how period dramas designed to appeal to modern women will just give women the wrong idea about the past, bonus points for if they throw in that such things are bad for feminism.