Subject: Re: Is Twin Peaks anti-woman? Are Twin Peaks fans?
From: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling)
Date: 1990-11-14, 17:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <39543@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe
Buck) writes:
> > 
> > Just the same, Lynch and Frost are portraying a small logging town
> > here.  Is anyone really asking that he portray things that do not
> > exist in such towns in the interest of not offending anyone?  If TP
> > were an absolutely realistic portrayal of such places we'd see a lot
> > MORE sexism portrayed.

Precisely.

My wife frequently comments that in terms of sexism,
whether subtle or blatant, moving from L.A. to Sacramento
was like moving back 10 years in time.  Moving to Twin Peaks
would probably be like moving back 30 or 40 years.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@Unify.com