This is grim, but those of us born in the 80s will remember how absolutely obsessed the media was with Britney Spears becoming “legal” and reporting on her virginity every chance they got.
I actually do not remember that because I actively ignored all popular music, all royal family, all oj simpson, and the rest. I still do. Oh yeah, also actor’s names, I try not to learn them.
Cool, thank you for your valuable insight.
I’d bet that more-or-less describes a disproportionate amount of Fediverse users.
UK newspapers would frequently publish photos of 16 years old girls with their tits out. That was only made illegal in 2004.
Back during Paedomania of the early 2000s, Brass Eye had an episode taking the piss out of the press’s new found moral crusade, despite them happily being in on it for the better part of 30 years. The press did not like this at all. Unfortunately they didn’t seem to realise they were at fault, which led to the memorable juxtaposition of an article about “perv spoof bosses” on the opposite side of the page from an article about how big 15 year old Charlotte Church’s boobs were getting.
I’d forgotten they did this with Charlotte Church. Christ.
What else to see in the upcoming days?? 🙂
For people who weren’t around in the 70s and 80s trust me the sexism and sexual abuse back then was unreal!
How Shields was treated was not unusual at all.
I was a bit young so I don’t remember well, but wasn’t there a mainstream movie about a girls sports team that was essentially just teen (13+ not 18+) softcore lesbian porn? I think one of the Hemmingway sisters was in it.
EDIT: I think I am jamming two movies together. One is Personal Best (1982) with Mariel Hemingway. I still can’t remember the name of the young teen girls one but I do now remember that the plot was that these young girls were trying to lose their virginity. Fucking boomers. Seriously.
EDIT 2:
Found it. The second movie was Little Darlings about girls at camp.
Not exactly of boomer age myself but deducting that you’re younger I think it’s pretty sad that you have this opinion…
Yeah, teenage girls are interested in sex. Even lesbian sex! Sorry. It’s sad that you think it’s ‘unhygienic’ or whatever that there’s movies about it.
A few decades later American Pie broke the box office on the same premise. Is that ok because it’s all heterosexual?
Read my comment again. In the edits I clarified that my memory jammed Personal Best and Little Darlings together.
Yes, I am younger than a boomer, but I am still in my fifties.
I’m bisexual and have been dealing with homophobic bullshit for over forty years, so please kindly fuck off with your insinuations of homophobia.
But then what do you find wrong with that movie? Apparently it’s about 15 year olds trying to get laid at camp. I sure was trying to get laid at camp when I was 15
It, 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.
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?
Is it me or is this a recent trend of making the impression that paedophilia in the 70s-80s was normal? Like a week or so
