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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 hours agoIt, and other movies of the seventies and early eighties opted to sexualize young actresses, primarily for the enjoyment of adults and not to help young people feel seen and represented.
You bring up American Pie, a movie about teens trying to get laid. Not a single one of those actors being sexualized was a minor or presented as a minor. That’s what I have a problem with.
I do not have a problem acknowledging young teen sexuality. I have a problem with the sexualization and exploitation of young teens by movie makers at the time.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I haven’t seen the movie, only read synopsis and reviews, and it doesn’t seem at all like the actresses are sexualized. It’s a coming of age comedy. Maybe the idea about 15 year olds thinking about sex is what got your mind going at the time?
Can you explain how they were exploited?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
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The main actresses were of age (17 & 18 at time of filming) but the movie was about a girls camp. Most of the other girls were much younger. Cynthia Nixon was 13 and looking younger. My issue is more with the portrayal than the plot. For a few years in the 70’s and early 80’s there was a trend to make jaiobait movies for the pleasure of adults. Little Darlings wasn’t the worst, but it is still problematic. The plot of Tatum O’Neil’s character flirting and trying to bed a man in his late twenties or thirties was included for no other reason other than to feed the fantasies of the adult males in the Audience.
Manhattan is another disturbing is example. She was 16 and the plot was of a man in his forties in a sexual relationship with a high school girl.
The Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a teen hitchhiker than promptly fucks the rando trucker that gives her a lift.
Examples seem endless and they all point to the same obsession that generation of men have with young teen girls. Woody Allen, Trump, Epstein, Ted Nugent, etc. They all demonstrated the same issue.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Well if you can’t watch a movie with an actress that’s 18 or even in her twenties without automatically thinking she’s being exploited, I guess you just need to turn off the tv, stop reading books and, finally, stay off the internet.
Teens have (consensual) sex, people are going to tell stories that reflect life, young actresses (and actors) are going to play teens and twentysomethings that crave and have sex.
I get thinking a 17 y/o in an explicit sexual role is a bit risqué but if you need them to be 30+ it’s just fully ridiculous for me
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
It’s a weird hill you’ve chosen to die on, but ok. You do you.