Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Framing safe heterosexual intercourse in the language of “men are dogs—protect yourself!” constructs a hypothetical, collective female vulnerability that deprives women of agency in their sexual encounters. Rather than empowering women, it establishes a paradigm in which women are victims of men’s animalistic urges. In reality, men are not the sole indulgers in promiscuity. This characterization assumes that men are infidels and that women are their perpetual victims, when this is by no means a universal truth. Forced sexual encounters are tragic occurrences that will erode sexual equality...
...situation was disappointing because I had appreciated this counselor’s candor and valued his openness to sexual habits and preferences. Unfortunately, attempts at sexual honesty backfire when they resort to reductive characterizations of gender niches. I would have been satisfied with a clear HIV test, a bag of condoms, and a simple, professional goodbye. In attempts to paint sex as something to be feared—and men as untrustworthy—the least likely people can find themselves in the doghouse...
...noticeably contrived. Their stilted words and staging make them appear painfully conscious that they are acting, and the plasticity of their conversations is impossible to overlook. To be sure, there is a patent attempt to flesh out the main characters’ three-dimensionality. Tucker’s secret sexual naïveté, for instance, complicates his otherwise insufferably flat character. But nothing can save either protagonist from the actors’ forced deliveries. Ultimately, Hugh Hefner is the only realistic character in the film, and that isn’t saying much since the man plays himself. Like...
...Beyoncé (at least publicly) being a woman is a complicated charge, so difficult to navigate that it is often easier to section parts of herself off from the whole rather than try to keep all of the pieces together. She is both resolute and self-sustaining; unabashedly sexual, though her principles of sexuality are often divorced from their praxis. One day she’s an Independent Woman, and the next she wants to take the backseat and Upgrade U.On the track “Upgrade U,” Mrs. Jay-Z suggests that in spite...
...still a lack of information? Is it burnout and a sense of hopelessness? Is it denial? Is it recklessness? We don't fully understand." -Voicing frustration at the persistence of risky sexual practices in New York City's adult establishments. (New York Times, April...