Jul 10, 2022·edited Jul 11, 2022Liked by Phoebe Maltz Bovy
I think theory 3 is correct. I haven't watched it in years, but as I recall Hyacinth is, within the landscape of the show, not coded as impossibly unattractive. Her neighbour is (if anything) more frumpy, and her more conventionally pretty sister is a slut.
Ooh interesting! Elizabeth gets Richard's attention but he's a captive audience. But all three sisters are sexually or romantically rejected: Rose, desperate for the love of married men who only want sex from her; Daisy, by husband Onslow, who just wants to be left alone with the telly; and Violet, whose husband Bruce is off on various sexual escapades she's not involved in.
I think theory 3 is correct. I haven't watched it in years, but as I recall Hyacinth is, within the landscape of the show, not coded as impossibly unattractive. Her neighbour is (if anything) more frumpy, and her more conventionally pretty sister is a slut.
Ooh interesting! Elizabeth gets Richard's attention but he's a captive audience. But all three sisters are sexually or romantically rejected: Rose, desperate for the love of married men who only want sex from her; Daisy, by husband Onslow, who just wants to be left alone with the telly; and Violet, whose husband Bruce is off on various sexual escapades she's not involved in.
Infantilized posh men want to bang Mummy.