They are much more beautiful in person in the Winthrop Galleries than in the reproductions in her many books. This is followed by a Playtex tampon commercial, demonstrating the show's demographics. They explored these subjects in collaboration with other women in their Womanhouse project, an installation in an actual house. Collaboration, too, undermined the prevailing stereotype of the artist as an isolated lonely male painter. The woman artist, in the late '60s and early '70s, was the one who was lonely.
Ally begins to chicken out of the competition.
Elaine talks her out of it. Ally thinks it reflects badly on the firm. But Billy talks her back into it, with just one sentence. It was that easy. The Tina competition starts.