Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Nancy Drew: Girl Role Model Message-ID: <1991Apr11.154356.15348@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 15:43:56 GMT References: Sender: news@aero.org Organization: Computer Graphics Lab [CGL], University of Waterloo Lines: 41 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes: > > hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes: > >So, if you could name ALL these mystery movies with aggressive female > >sleuths and prove me wrong I will be willing to admit the mistakes in > >my assumptions. > >For movies, there are the Miss Marple movies (she is more aggressive >in the movies than in the books, too). You might count the "Thin Man" >movies; the man characters Nick and Nora Charles - Nick is a detective >who doesn't want to detect and Nora is always pushing him to and >getting involved in things, although he's always the one who solves >the case. Sorry, doesn't count. > Back to Agatha Christie, there are Tommy and >Tuppence...similar to Nick and Nora except that Tuppence figures out >more of the mystery. Good try Muffy. BUT what good are they if I haven't heard of ANY of them! :-( I have heard of the Miss Marple and Agatha Christie books but not the movies. I haven't even seen them in the video store but I'll take another look. Hey, maybe I'll see them and give a review. :-) I should have added 'popular' to my list of requirements. Heloise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I may be a dumb blonde but at least I'm a natural dumb blonde! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure that if you feel my arguments are wrong you'll correct me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love mail -- and my boyfriend :-) (should I be telling people this?) Oh well, just send it to hrdoucet@cgl.waterloo.edu ((H)eloise Doucet)