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Ah, I really should have read the article I linked to. In Project Moonbase
"the President of the United States is a woman. This is counterbalanced, however, by the film's misogyny, wherein the female lead is portrayed as a 'spoiled brat,' and is threatened to be spanked by her male commander."
And speaking of gender clichés: Polly Bergen's President McLoud steps down from office when she becomes pregnant (and the film is about her husband anyway). ---
Sluzzelintalk18:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)reply
I've seen that film. It was terrible. People being female was the movie's only gimmick. 'Finally we get to see the hotshot pilot that everyone has strangely been talking about but not using personal pronouns ... OMG She's a woman! This is a shocking development because everyone knows that women cannot be pilots in real life.' This same pattern was used more than once.
APL (
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23:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)reply
She didn't take maternity leave, paid or unpaid, she resigned from office. And the newspaper headlines point out how it took millions of women to put her in the White House, but only one man to get her out. :-| ---
Sluzzelintalk20:46, 29 May 2009 (UTC)reply
The lyrics look like they were generated by an
Emo-lyric generator, so I wouldn't set too much store by this expression, but it's the same construction as "happy to be home" or "lucky to be alive" i.e. the singer/narrator's response to being wanted is to feel haunted or cursed. Perhaps he yearns to relinquish earthly responsibilities, or fears that his spirit has been crushed by an onerous duty such as
conscription. Or perhaps he knows that he is not long for this world and doesn't want to let anyone down.
See
here for more discussion of the song's "meaning".
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Ah, I really should have read the article I linked to. In Project Moonbase
"the President of the United States is a woman. This is counterbalanced, however, by the film's misogyny, wherein the female lead is portrayed as a 'spoiled brat,' and is threatened to be spanked by her male commander."
And speaking of gender clichés: Polly Bergen's President McLoud steps down from office when she becomes pregnant (and the film is about her husband anyway). ---
Sluzzelintalk18:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)reply
I've seen that film. It was terrible. People being female was the movie's only gimmick. 'Finally we get to see the hotshot pilot that everyone has strangely been talking about but not using personal pronouns ... OMG She's a woman! This is a shocking development because everyone knows that women cannot be pilots in real life.' This same pattern was used more than once.
APL (
talk)
23:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)reply
She didn't take maternity leave, paid or unpaid, she resigned from office. And the newspaper headlines point out how it took millions of women to put her in the White House, but only one man to get her out. :-| ---
Sluzzelintalk20:46, 29 May 2009 (UTC)reply
The lyrics look like they were generated by an
Emo-lyric generator, so I wouldn't set too much store by this expression, but it's the same construction as "happy to be home" or "lucky to be alive" i.e. the singer/narrator's response to being wanted is to feel haunted or cursed. Perhaps he yearns to relinquish earthly responsibilities, or fears that his spirit has been crushed by an onerous duty such as
conscription. Or perhaps he knows that he is not long for this world and doesn't want to let anyone down.
See
here for more discussion of the song's "meaning".