"You ask, '[Pan Am is] another show that's pushing feminist characters who have a job serving drinks to rich white men. Is that less sexist because they're not dressed in bunny costumes?' The answer to this question is 'yes.' Sure, there was a whole lot of sexism involved in being a 'stewardess,' but do I have to point out how dressing up in a skimpy rabbit costume is slightly more degrading than wearing a powder blue suit? Whether or not the bunnies were doing it voluntarily doesn't really matter. Women constantly consent to their own objectification; that doesn't make it not sexist. The point is that they're wearing almost no clothing and (worse, in my opinion) that they're dressed as baby animals. They're cute, cuddly and compliant 'playthings.' And yes, The Playboy Club is about 10 times worse because it's actually pretending that being a bunny was somehow a liberating experience."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/ThePlayboyClub
FollowingQuotes / The Playboy Club
Go To
