Pandemic Nostalgic Education
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One of the pandemic activities that’s been going on in our house over the past 18 months has been Friday pizza and movie nights. The pizza is cooked on our balcony in the “smoker” while the movie starts on our big TV.
My husband and I have been choosing movies from our childhood and teenage years that we think our boys, 12 and 9 years old will like, to “educate” them on good movies from the 80’s and 90’s.
We have watched Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III. They were a hit. The boys loved the DeLorean and it was nice to revisit a very young Michael J Fox as Marty McFly and Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd.
We watched Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 2 because YouTuber Mark Rober produced two backyard squirrel mazes (they are so funny) one using an iconic scene from these movies. So we had to watch the real thing. It was great to revisit a younger Tom Cruise before he lost his way a bit.
We watched Marley & Me and the rest of the family said I wasn’t allowed to choose movies again because we all ended up crying when Marley died. And then I convinced them that Turner and Hooch was super funny and that no dog would die (forgetting that Hooch did die at the end). So now I’m really not allowed to choose movies.
Some of the most iconic movies of the 1980’s were written by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. We won’t be watching these movies anytime soon on Friday night, but Molly wrote about this era of movies and how women were viewed, after watching them with her daughter.
Times were different and I really enjoyed Molly’s reflections.
Lisa xx
Podcast
While we are being nostalgic, I used to love watching Fashion Police with Joan Rivers, a glass of wine in hand and a few girlfriends on a Saturday night. Such. Fun. This podcast makes the case that award season red carpets being a competitive sport in their own right. There are references to Fashion Police and female actors being treated as dolls.
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‘Invisible Women – Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’ by Caroline Criado Perez
Reviewed by one of our members, Arran Pearson, this landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women.
Arran says ‘I’d recommend this book as a must read for anyone generally but to Men in particular. I suspect many of the examples will have women readers shouting ‘Duh!’ but I found several examples of things that I ‘knew’ but just hadn’t spent the time working things through to logical conclusions to understand why. A book for everyone’s ‘must read’ list’.