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Watched Easy A a couple of days ago (very witty, clever script) and thinking this morning again about how cultural expectations and pressures around sexual behaviour are really a sort of powerful psychic prison. Slut, prude, virgin, stud - all tools of social control
I procrastinated watching it because âhow interesting could teenage drama around perceived promiscuity really beâ - but it is!! The villain in the story isnât any specific character but society itself. The herd, the mob, the way that word spreads to police and control people
Thereâs a scene where Olive and her gay friend are pretending to have sex in a room at a party - and itâs funny - but what doesnât get examined closely enough I think is *why the fuck* is everyone else at the party crowding around the door, listening?? People are terrible https://t.co/pnGk4dgXaT
Itâs also interesting how the story chooses to resolve. Ultimately Olive *wins*. She releases the truth on her vlog, and everyone believes her!!and she gets herself a hot, thoughtful, respectful and sweet boyfriend who doesnât care what people think!! Ladies what you think
The show doesnât dare tell the likely truth about what happens to people in Oliveâs shoes. It does *allude* to it via a subplot where the guidance counsellor hides that sheâs having sex with a student (by supporting his claim that *Olive* gave him an STD). & thatâs a great scene https://t.co/PYJaWH51h4
The truth about truth is that people often donât care if youâre right if they prefer the story where youâre wrong, and they will *ruin* you for it. Seen this happen to my own friends during #metoo - telling the truth can be a *punishable offence* https://t.co/hmyItT7tlL
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" applies . You might be right about something, but if you die before you're validated...? Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands. He was fired, then sent to an asylum, where he was beaten, and died. https://t.co/ZwFYSEO9Dj
It actually wouldnât surprise me in the slightest if, upon revealing the truth about how the boys who claimed to have slept with her actually didnât, one of them literally murders Olive. This is not fictitious. Angry boys kill girls https://t.co/bGVmHAMkdH
@alt_visa "Okay," he says. "Cool." The next day, he comes to school with a kitchen knife. He shoves you down the stairs. He then stabs you in the neck, face and chest. Your friends are devastated. Hundreds attend a candlelight vigil in your memory. We miss you. https://t.co/56szF4XwK4