Stepford Wives

Stepford Wives was a film that was writtend, directed, and produced by men. Can you really call this a feminist film or can should you call it an attempt to delve into the men's psychy? I would definately agree that the men took very good care of the feminist message however, part of me still feels as though this film sought out to satisfy every man's fantasy. I mean, who wouldn't want the perfect wife? A Stepford Wife has the perfect body, breasts, face, and does everything that they are told. They take care of their main responsiblity there husband and children. They had no mind of there own and they could not even speak against there husbands. The most controversal thing in theirs lives is getting behind on housework because they could not get the floor clean enough. The reading claims to say, "The Stepford Wives was in fact rather more faithful to the popular feminist discourse of its day than its critics were willing to accept at the time. Even seemingly outlandish image of patriarchally brainwashed women as automatons finds echoes in Mary Daly's contemporaneous description of such nonfeminist women as "fembots" and "puppets of papa". I don't think that anyone would know the underlying message unless knowing a lot of about the time of the films filming and background information. Any unsuspecting viewer might see the film as just simply a man's fantasy. You see a little bit of feminist fight in the main character. She tries fighting what is happening to her and the other women in town. She is trying to fight the men by figuring out what they are doing to all the women. However, in the end the men win. So what is this film trying to say about the feminist fight? Is it trying to say that no matter how much women fight and no matter how hard headed and strong a woman may be like the main character in the film that in the end men are always going to come out on top? Cause event he strongest character in the film fighting for women's rights, in a small way but still fightin, was turned into one of these "puppets of papa" with perfect breasts and no brain like men like there women. I am trying to figure out what hidden agenda these male writers and directors were trying to say. One the surface you could think that this film was fighting for women's rights and pushing for women's suffrage and that women are more then just homemakers and wives but people. Women are people with brains and capable of intelligent thought. However, I feel much like the reading interprets that this is a masoganist film that is trying to say that no matter what women try to do men will always win. Women are the weaker sex and will remain in such a role because men are on top. Would you say this film supports feminist strife? Or, would you say this film is merely a masognist film hidden beneath the seams?