This week’s reading was interesting and a little difficult to understand. In the Seduction and betrayal in the Heartland: Thelma and Louise by Jack Boozer, I found the story to be strange. I remember a very long time ago watching this film and thinking that these are two ladies who do not want to be hurt anymore. So they take the world by the short hairs to say the least, and give them something to write home about. As Boozer states "Thelma and Louise is seen, for example, to be either an imperfect satirical analogy of woman's dilemma in contemporary America, or an unrealistic female liberation fantasy that backhandedly supports reactionary violence."(Beedles, 208-9) This was a movie that just gave to world something to talk about. It is kind of like the film 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton in it. She plays a secretary who is just fed up with the males dominating the work area. I do not remember the other two ladies in the film, but they decided to kidnap the boss who treated them like dirt. Then they implemented different programs like a daycare for working moms and a part time work program. These ladies were ahead of their time in bringing about change into a male dominated work place.
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