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Quote: "...two bikinied bodyguards who call themselves Bambi and Thumper. They strike a gymnastic blow for Women's Lib by effortlessly bouncing Bond, the sexist pig, off the four walls of a luxurious desert hideaway."
Whether or not a feminist agenda was intended here (perhaps it was Dana Broccoli nagging her husband, or more likely the producers were throwing a bone to the progressive movements of the time to try to keep the series relevant), changing the politics of the James Bond films is nothing new and I personally am not outraged by this supposed political agenda (supposed being the key word here). Goodhead (despite her name), was intended as more of a progressive woman of the times with brains and who kept her clothes on. There was also the contemporary PC subtext in the Dalton films during the AIDS epidemic, with Bond keeping his pants on. And of course Dench's "relic of the cold war speech". The fact that in CR there is only one woman in a bikini and Bond arises out of the water as a sex symbol shouldn't be some earth-shattering heresy to the series...that's all I'm saying.
Not really as I came across as nerdy nerd geek. Where are my manners? Welcome to Mi6.
anyway, welcome @CodeNameViva.
And don't you worry about what you love, recent scientific work has shown that all preferences thought to be typically girls/boys are society-indoctrination. It's what society expects them to like. I.e. how many girls you know got a model train for their birthday, and how many boys?
So, all in all, all women here MUST be free spirits ;-)
Guidance? How so?
I won't be telling you to "stop it" because I'm not your momma and I'm too busy playing with the toys, too. :D
Not being rude here, but in all honesty, what was the point of that video??
Boys, toys and girls taking charge as in the implied conversation above the video.
You could view it as evidence that "crudity is at the heart of the child-man persona," an increasingly ubiquitous personality type among men age 20–40 who don't grow up because they don't have to. Weaving together the socioeconomic and cultural paradigm shifts of the last half-century, the appearance of "a new stage of life" in developed societies—pre-adulthood—where the traditional life-script: grow up, marry, have children, and die, is now: "What do I want to do with my life?" But in a world where social demands no longer equate manhood with maturity, frat dudes, nerds, geeks, and emo-boys can remain in suspended postadolescence, while women, whose biological clocks are ticking, are forced to choose between single parenthood and casting their lot with a "child-man." It's a provocative argument that advances with considerable spirit, but she conflates character with maturity, and her blaming feminism for the infantilization of men wrests more power and control away from men, suggesting that they can't develop a sense of responsibility without a woman's help.
The video I got from the link was a Tekken video game cinematic. ??
Ah, see. I missed that due to the lack of subtitles.
In response to your statement though: if men fail to grow up, blame the parents. If girls fail to grow up: blame the parents. And if either fails to appreciate Bond, well, you know the drill. ;)