Grease is not sexist – it’s just a bit of fun
To all those woke people who criticise the film Grease for various reasons, all I can say is ‘get a life and grow up’. Thank goodness we did not have all this utter nonsense in those days and could enjoy things for what they were… a bit of fun.
Liz Thoenes, Haslemere, Surrey
So Grease is the latest target of the ‘woke brigade’. When will these people realise that, like everything else they want to ban, it was made in a different era? As a 78-year-old man, I am tired of being told a certain film is harmful or that I shouldn’t read such and such a book.
Terence Woodings, Blackpool
At 19, we girls tried to copy all the fashions and could recognise dirty old men a mile off while appreciating the swagger of the lads and loving a wolf-whistle or a wink. Knife fights, crime and drugs are far more scary in 2021 than the Motorcycle Michaels of yesterday.
Janet Little, Burley, Rutland
I loved the film when I was younger, and I still love the music, but as a mother to a 14-year-old daughter, I’m appalled that they still show it.
A. Jones, West Yorkshire
I’m 27 and it’s one of my favourite films. People nowadays have to be offended by absolutely everything and it’s pathetic.
London
Mary Kennedy,
So the snowflakes think it is sexist that Sandy dressed up in sexy clothes to attract Danny. But that was her choice. Danny was as taken aback by the change at the end of the film as the rest of us.
I cannot see how these snowflakes get through everyday life because everywhere they look they will see something that can be construed as racist, sexist or any other ‘ist’ they can think of.
Paul Morley, Skipton
While I love Grease, looking at it with fresh eyes in 2021 you can see it wouldn’t get made now.
V. Roberts, Manchester
It’s a film made for idiots who love the simplicity of a misogynistic and binary lifestyle. There are plenty of other films out there for those with a bit of grey matter.
Z. Nichols, London
I watched the movie when it first came out and took offence at the moral of the story: that a girl needs to change for a boy. I’m so glad that those feelings I had are now being given a voice.
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As much as I love Grease, I’ve always said it should have been a lot more diverse. If The Warriors, a film that came out around the same time, managed to include actors of several different races, why not Grease?
K. Thomas, Birmingham
As a child of this period, I know the vocabulary of the time was different. However, you cannot ‘cancel’ what is in the past, nor should you be allowed to try. Christine Russell,
Tilbury, Essex