How Lovely To Be A Woman

Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie.

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[Bernadette Terrell]

i'd love to see someone sing this on their period.

[alexishopemusic]

I love how people are concerned with her socks when Ann just pulled jeans out from under her mattress....

[Lydia Breaux]

"How lovely to be a womaaaaan, FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUCK. *rage quits*"

[FleurJuice]

That's actually really handy! I might just incorporate that little tidbit about the jeans into my routine.

[Kristy Lin]

It hurts my brain that the outfit that she changes into is so modern...I can see this on Christy Turlington in the 90s and I can see it on a fashion blogger now

they don't show these types of outfits on Mad Men

[turnipy88]

That's not respect. My dog gets food and water every day without having to do a thing. He's not dignified, though; I have no respect for him. Men being chivalrous were not doing it out of respect; they were doing it because poor helpless women can't be troubled to hold open their own doors, just as they can't work in factories. The modern solution to being treated like a sex object is to stop making such a big deal about sex, kinda like laughing it off, it diminishes the power, hence the shorts.

[This1sS0Stup1d]

Does nobody understand that the joke of this scene is how she's dressing DOWN instead of up while talking about how glamorous womanhood is?

[SassyandalwaysClassy]

Excuse me wasn't around in that time period had no idea and who's bobby soxers

[MystMoonstruck]

No! She was pressing, not hiding, her jeans! That's what girls did! Later, when jeans got snugger, we generally had pliers handy to pull up the zipper while lying on the bed. Even snugger, they were never nasty. Even the "bad girls" didn't act like girls started acting later. She just changed from a school outfit to a relaxing-around-the-house one. It was close to how bobby soxers dressed in World War II, sort of cute and tomboyish with still very girly and cute. I loved how we dressed!

[MystMoonstruck]

That's how we pressed jeans! You placed jeans between mattress and springs I guess so we didn't have to iron them and they'd feel softer. We did all sorts of stuff, just like every generation. But, I think we had more fun in the Fifties and Sixties. I was 20 as the Seventies arrived, and the difference was noticeable in just a few years. I'd go back in an instant! If I knew now what I knew then, I'd KNOW there wasn't going to be a nuclear war, that the Wall was going to fall, etc. It was better.

[May Page]

That would be some remarkable acting.

[Jordan Kinmont]

Anne Margret should be the model for every teenage girl everywhere. She realized something every real woman understands: You don't have to be a dumb whore to attract men. Just be beautiful. chipper and classy.