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“The Stepford Wives” was a horror film, not a blueprint for modern living. But @damemagazine sees it today in the rise of the misogynist tech bros and the use of technology to move the world backwards, not forwards. “Whatever tools and electronics we have lying around, we can use them to make a future of equality and freedom for everyone, or we can use them to make a future of slavery and death,” writes Noah Berlatsky. “For better and worse, those choices are the same now as when Joanna first traveled to Stepford. And they’re the same now as when, against her will, she was bloodily removed from it.”

damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/pr

Dame Magazine - · The Disturbingly Prophetic Message of ‘The Stepford Wives’ - Dame MagazineSince The Stepford Wives was first shown on movie screens 50 years ago, its title has become shorthand for women in thrall to a throwback domesticized femininity. The film’s warning about retrograde gender roles, though, is framed in a plot which expresses anxieties about a future of dehumanization and automation. The movie continues to resonate