9 Pointless Political Statements In Otherwise Awesome Movies

4. It Is A Mother's Duty To Look After Her Children - Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins Mary Poppins is another Conservative film that wears its ideology on its sleeve, promoting families while also rallying against the (at the time) nascent form of feminism. Mrs. Banks is a dedicated suffragette, though the film takes her to task for appearing to care more about this than her kids, instead putting them in the care of a nanny, the titular Mary Poppins. Remember that the film is set in the 1900s, and it appears to allegorise the Victorian stereotype of putting little stock in children with the baby-boomer "neglect" of the 1960s, which Conservatives will argue resulted in the heightening divorce rates and latch key kids prevalent nowadays. The film seems to look snidely upon the progressiveness of the 1960s, castigating the mother in particular for her "abandonment" of her children towards other causes, when all the film needed to do was tell a nice story about the most awesome nanny who ever lived.
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