Wanton Booty
October 8, 2020 1:47 am Leave your thoughts
If she’s a “strong female character” why do you insist on showing her at her most vulnerable, naked, riding a stranger and not paying attention so people can shoot her in the back? #punisher
I am SO TIRED of movies and television series where the second they introduce a female character, you know she will have a sex scene within the next two episodes. I’m not a third-wave feminist screaming about rights I already have, but I see the agenda in the entertainment industry, and it runs alongside the pedo agenda and the celebrities now coming forward/being discovered to have been a victim or a perpetrator. The entertainment industry runs on sexual currency, we all understand how that market works. “Sex sells,” but okay,…I want to fucking watch one film without seeing a pair of breasts that aren’t my own. I want to watch a sitcom (#Shameless) without witnessing some over-the-top ridiculous sex scene that is so removed from reality I have to laugh out loud because it’s so fucking lame.
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A male friend told me he supposed the reason behind the inclusion of sex scenes in every conceivable format and genre was probably because of desensitization, that we can go into the easy access to pornography, availability of casual sex via dating apps, sexual content in music vids and the ramifications on culture etc. There is scattered ass everywhere.
We were originally talking about The Last of Us 2 game. I haven’t played it, will never buy it based on the reviews and video excerpts from gamers I respect. The ones who have taken one for the team and sat through the apparently butchering so that other people didn’t have to. The game opened to decent sales as most hyped game releases do, but then ended up on trade-in shelves so fast some places actually banned the trade-in service for the game.
Gamers who usually get comped/receive copies free or wanted to keep relationships with Sony/Naughty Dog seem to really hate it, besides the gameplay and cinematics. Apparently, the anticipated sequel didn’t respect the mythology and storyline that made the original game a heart-wrenching action-packed masterpiece. Instead, they killed off Joel, a main star of the first game, in a way that many felt was a big “fuck you” to fans. You can even see gamers with bulk followers literally rip the game out of the console and snap the cd in half while playing. The flimsy storyline apparently appeared more concerned with pushing political narratives, and ended up nonsensical in some parts.
The part we got to discussing was a sex scene in the game in which the male in the scene just so happens to be rendered to look like one of the game creators (…Gross) and a lot of gamers think it was stupid and logistically unrealistic (one of those raw dawg/insta orgasm things) and didn’t think it needed to be included in a VIDEO GAME about zombies. Particularly when it served no purpose. (Following vid timestamped- it’s only one person’s review of that scene 🙂 )
I don’t write or read erotic fiction or even “romance.” If I did, maybe I’d have a different opinion(?) but I just want to see the group of ex-soldiers, the author/director spent making a big deal of, blasting stuff as a vigilante urban militia. I want to see the token female character they introduced beat the utter shit out of someone, and not just be the prostitute or the one baking cookies for the boys at the gym! #KingdomSeason1.
It doesn’t seem often a male lead character will be shown at home arguing with his wife or kids, and if it happens, it’s a footnote apparently adding to the stress of his job/caper/storyline/arc. Every time a female is represented I gotta see her tits and see her screw some other character. So for all the angry 3rd wave feminist stuff (or even #metoo stuff for that matter) you hear about, I’m struggling to see it effect change anywhere in this industry. In my opinion, if a writer or director is talented enough to represent sexual tension, nuance, hints towards the degree of the relationship… they don’t need to saturate the screen with it. If two characters are in a relationship, how about we learn their chemistry through another means besides naked people gyrating their uglies around for 3 mins? How often have writers(of books) been told their audiences aren’t idiots, they understand what is not said provided your writing is effective? I try to be aware of it; when you get too involved in telling backstory or setting up so your reader suffers a tedious info dump. It’s also why some authors are told to steer clear of prologues unless they are dire to the story.
Don’t get me wrong, I know sex scenes in books and movies get tongues wagging/increase ratings and I know random casual sex happens IRL too but…please don’t introduce the female character like she is going to mean anything to the movie or series if she was written in as a throwaway after that specific activity takes place. And in books, I have mentioned it before, please don’t turn your awesome action novel into a porno just because you can. These mediums have pagecount and time constraints, why put in a scene that doesn’t drive the story fwd?
For my books, yes, there is sexytime in latter novels, but not for no reason. And if it was going to be for no reason, it would not stretch for 16 pages of shit you don’t care about. I’ll never make someone sit through a sex scene that is long and gratuitous for no reason. Not my genre, not my thing, not where stories I write have their power. If it doesn’t have a major place in your genre, you should give some thought to how you would present it/ if it’s needed.
TLDR:
*I find it lame when a movie throws in scattered ass for no reason. It bores me.
*It’s my opinion that you should build your characters enough that you consider whether you actually need to make them get downnnn
*The mainstream entertainment marked is over-saturated, hypersexualised and hypocritical.
*If you are going to do the sexytime, write it well, and IRL, do it well. You create art. You are art.
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