Subject: Re: Sexism?
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1991-01-20, 16:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan21.181940.27897@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
> >In article <87707001@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>> >>  ... it is a CHOICE on the creators' part to go
>> >>for that "50's feel," including any potentially sexist subtext.
>> >>
>> >>The inescapable fact is that almost everything in TWIN PEAKS reinforces
>> >>traditional sex roles and attitudes.  ...
> >
> >Is it the purpose of Art to teach or to hold a mirror?

That's Hobson's choice.  Nowhere is it written that art's purpose must
be one or the other.  Not only that -- holding a mirror can teach.

> >What I think Twin Peaks does better than most everything on TV and
> >many movies is show how human weaknesses or character flaws lead
> >to dependencies or co-dependencies.  

Almost every dependency or co-dependency relationship in TWIN PEAKS
is presented as an accomplished, full-blown fact.  We are not shown how
weaknesses or character flaws LED to those relationships!  I find the
above observation somewhat wishful.