The aforementioned obscure Monty Python group did that stoning scene in Life of Brian. Men and women (I'm pretty sure) playing women dressed as men. Of course the fact that there aren't any men at the stoning coupled with how bloodthirsty they are doesn't reflect the best on women in that particular portrayal.
A person could get twisted in knots over that scene. I'm just going to persist in thinking it is absolutely hilarious though.
Now THAT is interesting.
I think you have to look at it on a case by case basis. I would agree that there are probably treatments out there that fall to that level.
I think it is a reasonable surface reading of a lot of the treatments of the issue, even if that was NOT the intent.
But I also think that there are treatments that are actual examinations of gender roles or gender perceptions or that can be easily turned that way.
Some of it could be both.
The aforementioned obscure Monty Python group did that stoning scene in Life of Brian. Men and women (I'm pretty sure) playing women dressed as men. Of course the fact that there aren't any men at the stoning coupled with how bloodthirsty they are doesn't reflect the best on women in that particular portrayal.
A person could get twisted in knots over that scene. I'm just going to persist in thinking it is absolutely hilarious though.
Ditto. Sometimes funny is simply that, and nothing more.