HIstorian Suzzannah Lipscombe responds to Mark Lawson’s poorly researched clickbait Guardian article, “Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history?”
From Downton Abbey to Call the Midwife and now Jamestown, period dramas always fall into the classic trap – characters with laughably liberal values for their day. Stop the madness, TV-makers!
Idiot man
· men: women were all complacent and sweet in the past none of them were feisty
· me: looks into the camera like im on the office
Any time a white male reviewer uses the words “Stop the madness” it is guaranteed that the review that contains said words is going to be full of the most mind numbing, ignorant and obnoxious garbage you could ever dread reading and it looks like Mark Lawson’s “Reviews” are no different
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Do they just think that women didn’t have opinions until the sixties rolled around?
Call The Midwife was based on a biography and it sticks fairly close to source material. So it’s kind of like he’s calling the woman who wrote it a liar. The reason men feel like this is because they like to fantasize about a time “before” when women were utterly compliant. They don’t want to acknowledge that such a time really only existed on TV shows from the 50s. It’s just so shocking to them that the way “modern” women behave isnt especially brand new. Take women having jobs as an example. “All these women working out of their homes! How dare they?” Yeah well the reality was it was mostly rich(and middle class depending on the time period and country) that stayed in the home. Lower class or poor women tended to have to work outside of the home while the older children took care of the younger. I’m sure there are people on here who are better at history that can give other examples.
I had to read The Miller’s Tale (published sometime around 1380) in high school.
In it, a woman gleefully sticks her arse out through a privy window and tricks an unwanted suitor into kissing it.