something i liked a lot about a league of their own is how true to the time period it stayed? it wasn’t some feel good about how “if history was different…” it SHOWED history in its truth both positively and negatively.
segregation and racism was rampant, and they never pull some “oh but max can be on the peaches for this weird and historically inaccurate reason,” we instead see her happiness and community within the black community and friendships with specific white characters in which she forces them to acknowledge that they didn’t help her but doesn’t hold them to the standards of today
we don’t get a “homophobia doesn’t exist actually” or a “random nice police officer for some reason lets them all go,” but we do get to see the underground bar and how it provided a safe haven alongside bert’s private parties
jess was fined for wearing pants and that rule was never changed throughout the whole show, but being given back the fines afterwards was a period consistent way of showing how someone might have shown support and solidarity then
as much as colorblind rewriting of history both for racism and homophobia is a nice idea, it’s also so important to show how the actual marginalized communities found strength and togetherness in the time that they had to, and did, live in.
