Work has given me a Cingular 8125, a combination mobile phone/pocketpc/camera. It is really nutty.
Work has given me a Cingular 8125, a combination mobile phone/pocketpc/camera. It is really nutty.
Lauren, my momz, and I watched “Kiss Me, Kate“, a Cole Porter musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.
Much of it was offensive to me. Cole Porter must have had some problems. Even though the show was a total of three hours long (with intermission), they had time to have women dance around pointlessly on stage for minutes at a time. One of the two female leads sings about how she cheats on her love but is “true in her own way”–and is portrayed in the play as despicable, impoverished woman. One of the male leads is a general who plans to subdue his woman to make her into his own image–and is one of the top men in the country, a guy you can really respect.
Despite my cringing throughout the play, I believe the ending is an affirmation that the female lead (Kate) got to choose how to live her life, and she chose to pursue her own interests rather than be subdued by the general. My mom OTOH believes this ending reinforces the gender stereotype of Kate as submissive woman.