Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sexism and its cultural and tradition-linked contradictions emerge in highly charged exchanges between an intense, riveting Arthur (Jeffrey Rubin) and Ala (Diana Silver). Arthur argues for a practical marriage based on "pleasure and profit" while hypocritically undermining his criticism of loose mores with a blunt display of sexual aggression...
Someone should make a movie some day about how so-called sexual liberation can backfire. As women have become more sexually "free," they have clearly become more freely sold--in advertisements, in movies like Lipstick, and in the sexual marketplace, where more is expected of them than ever...
...pretty girl and the slogan did what they were meant to do--they sold makeup to women who were in the market themselves. The sexual revolution drastically changed the terms of the sales; sex became more blatant and the advertising industry naturally kept pace. Now that a kiss usually promises more than a kiss, we have advertisements for women's clothing that wink slyly, "What to wear on Sunday when you won't be home till Monday," and underwear ads that murmur, "You owe it to your audience." And we have a new movie about a top fashion model...
...main point--that Stuart couldn't help being seduced by Chris's public eroticism--by asking the model how she manages to appear so provocative in her photographs. "Isn't it true that you think about things that will make you hot? Don't you have to imagine sexual acts to turn yourself on for these pictures?" he challenges. And she, like a fool, meekly murmurs, "Yes." The rapist is acquitted...
George Schreiner '71, a medical student at Harvard and MIT, points out that "women are much more often the victim of sexual aggression. My hunch would be that when they are the victim they might shy away from sex. Men can't deny their sexuality by changing their appearance. They just look a little skinnier. Whereas girls who are too skinny can look like boys...