Posted on 08/26/2014 8:49:38 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Fifty years after Julie Andrews starred as that practically perfect nanny, the character is still a role model for young women.
Like all Disney movies, Mary Poppins is full of whimsy and adventure, good guys and, if not bad guys, at least shades-of-grey guys.
And as we celebrate the film today, on its fiftieth anniversary, lets not forget its feminist perspective.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
I thought Minerva was the original feminist. She was in charge of mathematics and battle strategy.
I always thought Catherine the Great was the original feminist...or something.
Maybe she was and maybe she wasn’t. But she didn’t dishonor women with rude behavior and vulgar language. Mary didn’t shake her fist at God and yell: “womyn have a right to kill the child that You have fearfully and wonderfully made!”
Mary Poppins was a lady. She didn’t take any nonsense from anybody. And she didn’t have to ‘prove’ her worth to anybody either - she knew who she was.
I thought Jezebel was the original feminist.
Deborah.
The original feminist was God.
Can't be. Mary Poppins had a sense of humor.
Mary Poppins wasn’t a lesbian.
Pray America wakes up
....a woman who stays home and raises children is a feminist icon?
Good point. so the orginal feminist is still Wonder Woman
Surely it’s Mrs. Banks who’s the feminist, since she’s paying someone to bring up her children while she engages in political activism.
Time-Lies was the original fan of Adolph Hitler.
On the contrary, let's.
lolz
true
Can I ask why Mrs. Banks wanted a woman taking care of her children instead of a man?
Or would that be sexist?
When the little boy was older, he would have a male tutor or go to an all-boys boarding school. Then he could go into the Army just in time to be killed in World War I.
If Mary Poppins was the first feminist then Eleanor Roosevelt was the first transvestite and Hillary Clinton was the first transgendered (female to male).
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