potentially controversial opinion but I don’t think good sex ed can be “neutral” on feminism. it needs to acknowledge the power structure between men & women and how that manifests in sexual relationships and/or through sexual assault. it needs to understand how the patriarchy shapes sexual desires, beliefs, and practices, and promote harm-reduction techniques when these desires/beliefs/practices threaten to harm people.
“I wish someone would notice the tender description of [Lolita’s] helplessness, her pathetic dependence on the monstrous Humbert Humbert , and her heartrending courage all along, culminating in that squalid but essentially pure and healthy marriage, and her letter, and her dog. And that terrible expression on her face when she had been cheated by Humbert Humbert out of some little pleasure that had been promised. They all miss the fact that ‘the horrid little brat’ Lolita is essentially very good indeed—or she would not have straightened out after being crushed so terribly, and found a decent life with poor Dick more to her liking than the other kind.”
Is there rly any softer scene than when o’malley sees duchess and falls in love with her at first sight in the aristocats, complimenting her at every turn and climbing into a cherry blossom tree to make the flower petals snow gracefully down on her? How dreamy 🥀💕
This Is Love 😍😍
Not to mention when he found she had kids, he was thrown for a second, then proceeded to not only still help her, but dote on them too.
“Not all men” you’re right, Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley would never.
“No one in today’s cinema is more adept than Adam Driver at being caught in the act of reflection, and to be there, as a viewer, for the raising of a character’s consciousness is a kind of intimate political thrill.” – The New Yorker
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