Stepford Whines

Julian Sanchez | June 8, 2004

Via Drudge, we learn a TV-watcher in Kansas City is outraged by a spot for the remake of The Stepford Wives in which we see what's presumably a scene from the movie in which Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton morph into a topless model and a cookie-baking housewife. This seems bizarrely tone deaf. If the remake is anything like the original, it's a mordant satire of rigid notions of femininity and male power fantasies... so the imagined subjection of two iconic "powerful women" fits in well. Are we at the point where even lampooning something offensive is itself considered offensive?