The Consequences of Feminism

Alice Guy, 1906: a world in which women go to the office and men stay home with the baby, do the sewing, and get their faces slapped for talking back. Gaumont, a few minutes, the gender-swap comedy a decade before anyone called it that. Guy, the first woman to direct a fiction film, is not making a pamphlet. She is making a joke that only works if you have already noticed the original arrangement. The French title is Les Résultats du féminisme. The results, on screen, are that men do not like the job.