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Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) was such an important figure for the rise of independent women and fempower that she has her own statue in Minneapolis, where the fictional television series took place.

In her earlier role as Dick Van Dyke’s wife Laura on the Dick Van Dyke show, but even to some extent as Mary Richards, Moore seemed to stand for and embody nothing so much as perkiness…

Hence it’s a real transition, and an important one, to see her photographed (nearby) as a rather brazen dominatrix in full black leather. (Photo copyright Vanity Fair magazine, all rights reserved. Subscribe to Vanity Fair here.)

Now, on the one hand, the image is a little strained. Van Dyke seems to be at pains to demonstrate that he’s not really submissive… that it’s all a joke; nobody here but us posers. Yah, yah…. we can just heat it:

Missss-terrrrr Graaaannnt…

On the other hand, the fact that Mary Tyler Moore was traditionally in a range from perky to demure — at most, what a 1950s John Wayne would have called “spunky” — gives such an image real power.

You’re welcome to take it with a grain of salt. Just remember, this is not Mae West or Sharon Stone we’re talking about. It’s Mary Tyler Moore.

Doesn’t the idea of submitting to her have a certain tang? We thought so. On your knees, Mr. Grant.

(About this entry: CelebrityDominatrix wasn’t operating in 1995. We began blogging in 2007, and moved to our present url in 2009. But we’re posting many items like this back to the original date when we “would have” chronicled them, in large part so as to create a femocracy timeline. It works for us, and we trust readers will appreciate this form of organization. From time to time we’ll post a “new” summary of such items in real time, just so you fellas know what’s being filled in as we fill in the gaps of history… the transition to female rule and the disposable male.)

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