Lolita's Fist

#picksthattickleme  My search. Google only gets people who want to turn off cursing. Not people who want to turn off moralising totalitarianism of opinion-mongers who want to 'protect' their children. I'm a fucking adult!

Teenage movies back in the day were about how we felt different to our peers, we were each unusual and didn't fit. The movies were about how we tried. The films were highly inappropriate, but we were so normalized to inappropriate that we didn't notice. Rapey, racist, sexist, were normal. Grease (1978) was chock-a-block full of sex talk - I didn't notice - children ignore what they don't understand and fit what they do into a world that normalized what they did. Girls getting tossed aside if they didn't put out and accepted if they look like sluts. Normal. But to grown men our ignorance of what we were looking at looks like consent, acquiescence, flirting. "Young girls come on to me." Olivia's pants were fashion. Slut pants were fashion. Even now I am deeply uncomfortable with using the term 'slut'. And does my discomfort systemically play right into the patriarchal agendas depicted in Grease. And movies work like history does. When I lo...

Stewart Granger. Mommy curated my (and her) idolisation of Granger. In my head, I know that actors in the 1930s were not like today. Then, the actors belonged to the studios, on contract, in breach of contract if they didn't make the movies assigned by the studios. He would not have been able to say No, and I know what that is like. What a moment to see a fresh-faced young Granger say the N-word. I am shell-shocked. It's a moment where you have to say "I am looking at history with contemporary eyes". A raw case-in-point.

#Movies ~ Free Guy (2021). Another spend-the-budget-on salaries-for-men, all-guy movie, with a couple of scenes with a sexy-lamp-called Millie. Traitorously speaking, this scene with Channing Tatum is movie-stealing. Never liked him, especially when he woke Jennifer Lawrence up in Passengers (2016), the last straw. But this scene is classic. Classic I tell you. NSFW.

Loving the man-feminist  Pop Culture Detective  who shows us feminists here, that Abduction is framed as Romance in the movies. And while Kidnapping is a federal crime, the kidnapper-in-movies is dressed with hearts, empathy and flowers to overcome the sticky issue of #EnthusiasticConsent so that we women are not clear about what Red Flags really look like.  Not to mention the lack of clarity on what's not acceptable that is demonstrated to men. The blurry Red Flag makes men who can’t just ‘be nice’ and get women, instead they be awful and dream daily of just being able to abduct and rape.

Jeryl Bruner, "Academy Award nominations for female directors have been scarce. In the entire history of the Oscars just five women (yes, five!) have been nominated in the Best Director Category since 1929. Those women were Lina Wertmüller for  Seven Beauties  (1977) Jane Campion for  The Piano  (1994) Sofia Coppola for  Lost in Translation  (2004) Kathryn Bigelow for  The Hurt Locker  (2010) and Greta Gerwig for  Lady Bird  (2018)." Female Directors Stand Up For Their Sister Directors In A Big Way https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerylbrunner/2019/02/01/female-directors-stand-up-for-their-sister-directors-in-a-big-way/