Beebo and I were watching
The Bachelor last night, and were treated to Brad "Not commitment-phobic now" Womack telling one of the bachelorettes, who was pursuing a dental career, that he didn't 'expect [her] to be Superwoman'. We were delighted, because "I'm not Superwoman" is one of our favorite clichéd phrases.
In case you're not familiar with it, it's what you're supposed to say if you're a woman juggling a career while taking care of your kids, preparing all the meals, and cleaning the house and keeping your marriage alive. Preferably, if you say this, it's the early eighties, since it sounds extremely dated. It's apparently still
au courant, though, since I found
162,000 instances of it by doing a Google search.
The
earliest reference to 'Superwoman' seems to be from 1976, but most references to it probably stem from the 1984 book,
The Superwoman Syndrome.
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| I'm sure the "men's responses' from 1982 are especially cringe-worthy... |
Just to help you keep things straight, here's what Superwoman looks like
(in clip art form):
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| Has the most important job in the world--motherhood |
But don't confuse her with Supergirl:
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| Has the most important job in the world, if Superman is felled by green Kryptonite |
My favorite Gough movie is Konga, a terrible and great early 60s British King Kong rip-off. M.G. chews up the scenery with gusto, as he does in many of his films. He plays an evil and lecherous zoologist who has come up with a formula for making living things grow at an astounding and speedy rate. His main test subject is the titular chimp, though he also has a sideline in carnivorous plants. At the same time, he's macking on one of his students, a busty blonde who wouldn't seem to have any interest in science, but since this is a bad movie, she does. In the end, Konga becomes huge and carries Gough around the streets of London, and the blonde gets eaten by a plant.
