Whuuurt? Why didn't they just use, y'know, an actual freakin' baby?

Oooh, I am SO using this as a punishment in future! * rubs hands, cackles in glee *

That is brilliant - I will be plagiarising that and saying to my own students!
Seriously, one of the main things that bothers me when students try this is the fact that they think we'd be stupid enough to fall for it.

See, you can't understand it because wimminz don't understand logic.

Bitch stole my moves!

Ugh. It would probably pass for that short conversation alone, but I hate what Moffat did to Irene's character.

That cake it literally like something out of my nightmares.

Soooooohh keeeeeewwwwtttteee! * DIES *

Wow - she looks like Cate Blanchett here!

Having 14-year-old-me flashbacks here . . .

Stereotypes are fun.

Please don't think that! The male allies on Jezebel restore my faith in humanity : ) Also, Jezebel loves men who love women's rights: Exhibit A

Orgasm face.
You're welcome.

I haven't read the book, but I've read another of Andrea Levy's novels and enjoyed it very much! From what I've heard the TV show does stick pretty close to the book as well. Enjoy!

I didn't mean that I had some amazing insight into it - just wanted to stress that it was my understanding of the art and that I was open to discussion as to its meaning. It's hard to convey tone in comments like these, so I thought writing 'Well actually what the artist meant was . . .' would be a bit arsey.

Have you seen 'Small Island'? It's adapted from the novel and focuses on the crossover between two women's lives in the WW2 era - one white from London, the other black from the Caribbean. Plus it has Benedict Cumberbatch!

Man, you must've loved the TV movie of 'It'!

I so agree about the infantilisation of women. Keeps them safe and non-threatening. Hadley Freeman at the Guardian does a fashion column and often makes a really great case about how much recent women's fashion is infantilising (playsuits, hats with ears, Peter Pan collars etc).
Queens, then, are the opposite to…

I actually re-watched it recently and was blown away by the sheer 80s-ness of it. And yeah-not a masterpiece. Although I am still terrified of Hexus.

Fern Gully?