Need a hot feminist take need a hot feminist take. Oh I know
“A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses”
The types to bitch about classic literature on twitter also like to tweet about how some potboiler YA bullshit made them cry and how sex scenes make them uncomfortable, just utterly Barney Brained “adults”
Felix was right that there’s an entire subculture now that wants all media to just be Barney
Or talk about the difference between a hat and a snake that has swallowed an elephant.
Idk if being uncomfortable with sex scenes in media makes someone barney brained or less of an adult. I’d be perfectly happy to never have to see or read one again, being a non-horny person, and they do actively make me uncomfortable. You’re dead on about the YA brain poison, though.
Movies fucking suck now because they are incapable of portraying people having actual emotions and relationships. The end of sex scenes is a part of that
Nothing against the chapo hosts but this is one of the culture takes they make that you have to take with a grain of salt, male-gazey box-checking badly shot sex scenes and their accompanying shoehorned hetero relationship plots were not crucial to good movies, they were mostly just weird. They also weren’t a part of movies, many many excellent movies, for a long time before they became ubiquitous during the ‘especially creepy rapist producer’ Hollywood era. Not that they aren’t necessary and great in lots of films, just not most that they were a thing in. We also don’t need a return to the stock scene where prepubescent boys peeped on undressing teen girls, as much as Will Menaker may like that, as an example. More realistic attitudes towards sexuality in movies doesn’t mean more sex or nudity, my favorite sex in movies is of the embarassing and uncomfortable sort, or sexual repression and feeling being represented by a lack of sex or even masturbation (sadly underexamined in cinema).
Now, squibs and practical effects in general? Absolute must, parrot the podcast by all means on that
Please support me in my efforts to not have to see awkwardly shot and drawn out scenes of heterosexuals fucking every time I want to watch a tv show or movie.
