Wednesdays Keep Coming Around...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

But first... a question.
Considering the news we're hearing almost daily about men who are being accused of sexual harassment, it seems reasonable to ask ourselves about one of the two men we come here to read and write about.
Would Napoleon Solo be among those singled out as a predator?  Are his advances always welcomed by the women we see with him, or do some of them 'go along' with him simply because of who he is?
I wonder what y'all think, and what that looks like when we're writing MFU.
Okay, now it's on to...

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

The more I think about it, the more problematic that episode seems.
It is at once a very strange situation that our Russian has been placed in, and entirely the type of situation every single one of the girls/women watching the show would have relished. Perhaps that is the whole point of it, that the writers knew what to do with our seemingly puritanical Kuryakin in the wake of his popularity.
I don't know if you are familiar with the show Mad Men, originally shown on the AMC network here. It is set in the 60's, and in one episode a character, a young girl, is caught masturbating as she watches Illya in the Hong Kong Shilling Affair. This is one writer's response in an article in Vanity Fair...
"What was even more harshly cruel about the Sally’s shaming was that she was only responding naturally to the sight and plight of The Man of U.N.C.L.E.’s Illya Kuryakin. All the little girls loved Illya Kuryakin with his blonde bangs and black turtlenecks, and the older girls too. That’s how it was then--for a season or two, in adolescent hearts across America, Illya was the Fifth Beatle.]
Too bad she gets the name of the show wrong (The Man of UNCLE), and seems to not know the difference in spelling blond and blonde.

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

I'm quite glad to say I'm not familiar with Mad Men, though I think I've heard about that scene before.