{"id":38244,"date":"2017-05-03T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38244"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T12:35:11","slug":"qotd-patrick-macnee-was-a-serious-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/qotd-patrick-macnee-was-a-serious-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Patrick Macnee was a Serious Feminist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Patrick Macnee <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refused to model Steed after James Bond because Bond \u201cuses women like battering rams\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Embraced the concept of a female partner after being cast opposite a male one for a season<\/li>\n<li>Listened when Honor Blackman began telling him about gender inequality<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t think that being saved by a woman in any way injured his character\u2019s masculinity<\/li>\n<li>Consistently gave the women credit for the success of the show<\/li>\n<li>Recognized that the male producers were chauvinists, and blamed himself for not doing more about it<\/li>\n<li>Stood up for Linda Thorson when the producers tried to bully her (and was apparently terrifyingly angry about it)<\/li>\n<li>Was literally the only person on that show that Diana Rigg never said a bad word about<\/li>\n<li>Consistently talked about being raised by women and viewing women as equal to men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lauren H. Brooks, <a href=\"http:\/\/celluloidbroomcloset.tumblr.com\/post\/159828438932\/patrick-macnee-was-a-serious-feminist\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Patrick Macnee was a Serious Feminist&#8221;, <em>Kinkiness &#8230; and Patrick Mcnee<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Macnee Refused to model Steed after James Bond because Bond \u201cuses women like battering rams\u201d Embraced the concept of a female partner after being cast opposite a male one for a season Listened when Honor Blackman began telling him about gender inequality Didn\u2019t think that being saved by a woman in any way injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,41],"tags":[311,987,1125,101],"class_list":["post-38244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-quotations","tag-1960s","tag-feminism","tag-theavengers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9WQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38245,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions\/38245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}