Monday, February 16, 2009

Visions of Cavewomen, circa 60's.

I was watching this movie from the late 1960's called One Million Years B.C. I stumbled upon this film as a joke because my friend has seen it before and said it was terrible but worth watching for the humor factor. This film is chock full of gender bias, right from the beginning. The women, in un-cavewomanly like fashion, are drop dead gorgeous and very scantily dressed. They seem to follow the men around everywhere, and they take a secondary role to the men, the hunters, which is somewhat historically accurate. When Tumak is kicked out of the Rock tribe for killing a fellow caveman, the "alpha female", Loana, follows him into the wilderness amidst sighs and looks of astonishment from the other females. The funniest and most ironic gender based stereotype portrayed in this film is the fact that, while out, all of the cavewomen don hot pink purses and seem to act very weak throughout the film, although at the beginning the men and women were separated into seperate tribes.

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