ABSTRACT

The opening shot of the 1985 film, "What Sex Am I?" features a black-and-white newsreel from 1953. A slim, blonde woman, stylish in a mink coat sat) matching pillbox hat, disembarks from an airplane to face hordes of reporters, jostling for position, trying to get a quote or a photograph. She looks frail and feminine, the very opposite of the male uniformed Scandinavian Airlines pilots at the bottom of the ramp. At the press conference which follows, facing a phalanx of microphones, she protests in a slightly throaty voice, "I think it's too much."