The more things change...
This was an interesting and funny movie that sends a lot of messages. I really enjoyed it. The only thing I found kind of odd was Carol's reaction to her husband's cheating. She didn't seem as upset with John, or even Charlotte for that matter, than I would have expected. Actually, she kind of took it in stride and immediately went to work trying to win her husband back.
John was more upset even at the prospect of his wife cheating on him; their daughter had a similar reaction. She, apparently, al along knew but thought nothing about it and didn't think her mother should make such a big deal about it either. It's what men do, she says.
Their reactions were surprising but the truth is there's always been and always will be a double-standard when it comes to these things. A wife's cheating could bring home a child, knowingly or not, that her husband might think is his. When a man cheats, he may impregnate the other woman but it would be almost impossible for him to pass the child off as his wife's. Studies show a great number of fathers end up raising at least one child that's not their own.
In the past, probably the only way a mother could end up with a child that wasn't hers biologically is if the child was switched at birth. Today, with artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogate parenting, it's more likely. Probably as a result, children are now seen by some as a product, a thing rather than a human being.
Infidelity on the woman's part is still a bigger deal than it is on a man's. In fact, I don't just mean infidelity but any kind of sex. It was all about the protecting and caring for the potential offspring. It was a big deal because children mattered. This is why women used to be the ones championing traditional values more than men. Men could easily turn away from their children so unless they were married it wasn't as big an issue for them. When married, they would be responsible and raising them. What the sexual revolution and women's lib has done for women is given them the ability to have the same cold, callous, uncaring, disregard towards their own children as many men have for ages.
What used to be very uncommon; mothers not caring for their own children, has become somewhat rampant. Today many women do much worse than most men ever imagined. They don't simply turn their backs on their children, they actually murder them under the more acceptable term, abortion. It's gotten so bad, just this week I read how women are 'proudly' announcing they've aborted their kids. Before long, some dimwits will get pregnant just to abort so they too can tweet the fact they've had one. This is what the world coming to and what the loosened views on sex has and will continue to do to our society.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]