My Fair Lady as a Retrograde Example of Erasing Women's Emotional Work

[lookfar]

Toby and I went to see My Fair Lady at the Kennedy Center tonight; he got the tickets as a birthday present from his sister Ann and BiL Jeff.

So, you know the story of My Fair Lady, right? It's the musical version of Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which is roughly based on the Greek myth, in which a sculptor, Pygmalion, makes a model of a woman

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[northernwalker]

Offhand, I want a rewrite where Eliza runs her flower shop to great acclaim and meets a brilliant lady suffragist, who becomes her best friend. They move in together, and maybe they fall in love, and maybe they don't, but they adopt two little girls and raise them to be smart, competent women

[lookfar]

I'd def go see that!

[amorettea]

My nieces love it but more for the songs and costumes than plot.