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From: hutch@shark.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.women
Subject: Wretched vile bad television Re: Amazons
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Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 01:34:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  5 01:34:47 1984
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I just turned to MTV in utter disgust with ABC's latest "television premiere"
movie, Amazons.  I didn't expect much but that was lower than low.

WHY is it that the current trend is towards portaying strong women as the
villains, and that the "heroine" was a shrieking, wimpy, incompetent and
emotional weakling, clearly the ideal role-model for girls to look up to;
her profession as a surgeon was a twist of the knife, since she was played
as being obviously unfit even for that.

I don't expect a lot from ABC.  Their programmers tend to be arrogant, sexist
jerks who use sado-masochistic sex to hook larger audiences.  But this was
just too much.  Sorry, ABC, but from now on when I see a commercial on your
network, I will go out of my way to avoid buying the product.

Even if they managed by some miraculous plot twist to turn the Amazons into
a bunch of nice little Girl Scouts, everything leading up to it would make
it into sheerest hypocrisy.

Disgusted,

Hutch