That it’s not just “women’s work” to think about the ways these portrayals color how we collectively view issues of sexual assault. I’m always heartened when men grapple with these conversations. Two years ago on his blog Mega Nerd Media, Megan wrote about rape culture and the movies, “Superbad” among them.
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Let’s take it a step further: “My big beef with the movie is that at the end, they’re rewarded for it,” said Ryan Megan. Here’s the thing: “At no point in the movie do these guys realize: Oh wait, this is bad,” said Halffield. Then he enthusiastically advises Evan do the same with his crush (played by Martha MacIsaac): “When you guys are s-faced at the party, get with her.” “She’s going to be at the party and she’s going to be drunk and she likes me at least a little enough to get with me,” Seth says of his crush (played by Emma Stone). The plan is laid out while the guys converse on the high school soccer field. We're meant to root for these endearingly dorky and comically profane guys (Michael Cera, from left, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jonah Hill) even as they lay the groundwork for assault. The boys do “toy with the idea that alcohol and sex should not mix,” Halffield writes in her paper, but “at the end of the day, it does not stop them from attempting to use alcohol for this purpose.” And here we butt up against the limits of comedy. That’s what makes this trope so effective - they’re not the villains here. Of course the movie doesn’t paint the boys as monsters. Let’s talk about “Superbad.” Evan (Cera) and Seth (Hill) are the movie’s heroes - endearingly dorky, comically profane and obsessed with sex - and it is their close friendship and chatty comedic boorishness (whenever we see their point-of-view gaze in the direction of a woman or teenage girl, the camera zeroes in on her breasts) that gives the story shape and purpose.īut you can’t escape that nasty premise, no matter how humorously it’s dressed up - no matter how exuberantly it’s passed off as teenage raunch. Whereas what Molly Ringwald was saying was: No, the endpoint was sexual assault, it wasn’t simply eliciting a laugh.” “But the humor is derived from the ineptitude of these teenage boys,” Moorti said, “and sexual assault gets folded into that and it becomes an accessory to the humor. Sujata Moorti is a professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Middlebury College, and here’s what she told me: “The people who make these movies probably don’t see themselves as endorsing rape.” Jonah Hill and Michael Cera in "Superbad." (Columbia PIctures) These don't look like a couple of guys who intend to use alcohol as a loophole to consent - and that's the point.
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