Who said otherwise? To anyone who saw _M*A*S*H*_ (1970), that's already obvious (the most glaringly so in the "Hot Lips" jokes at the expense of Major Margaret O'Houlihan played by Sally Kellerman). However, in _Nashville_ and _McCabe & Mrs. Miller_, excellent performances given by Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Julie Christie bring to the films a feminist dimension entirely missing from other Altman films. (Whether viewers are alert to this dimension depends on the interpretive frameworks each viewer brings to the films.) Also, films reclect the times in which they were made; it is not insiginificant that _Nashville_ was made in 1975 and _McCabe and Mrs. Miller_ 1971, respectively.
Yoshie