Hey, has anyone else watched Anna Kendrick's Woman of the Hour yet? I caught it the other night after a long shift at work, just crashing on the couch with some takeout, and man, it really got me thinking about how the movie digs into those tricky power imbalances between men and women back in the '70s. Like, the way Cheryl pushes back a little on that game show, trusting her gut even when everything around her is pushing her to just go along and be nice—does that really show her taking control in a world that's stacked against her, or is it more about how limited her options were? I remember this one time at a party years ago, some guy kept hovering and wouldn't take the hint, and I felt that same low-key dread. Curious what you all think about the gender stuff and her agency in it.

Back in the '70s, those dating shows were everywhere on TV, all cheesy questions and big smiles, but underneath it was this constant sizing up of women, like their worth was tied to how appealing they seemed to the guys watching. I've noticed that even now, scrolling through random clips online sometimes, you catch echoes of that vibe in modern reality stuff—women having to play along perfectly while the pressure's mostly on them to perform. The whole era just had this layer of everyday dismissal that added up in ways people didn't always call out back then.