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
If you are not familiar with Brooke’s story… I’m sorry for ruining you day.
Shields, now 59, has been vocal about her experiences, including her infamous appearance in Playboy at age 10 and her role when she was a minor in The Blue Lagoon, a film that featured her and her co-star in numerous nude scenes.
She was abused for nude modelling and movie roles that sexualized her, including fully nude sex scenes, from age 11 on.
The movies were shown in theatres and on TV. Mainstream magazines published the pictures.
Fucked up times.Nude scenes/nudity is not a problem. Nudity is completely natural and should be normalised. The problem is in sexualising children, whether they’re nude or not.
It’s important to not conflate the two to avoid reinforcing puritanical views around nudity.
While I agree with your point, she played a child prostitute whose virginity was sold to the highest bidder.
Yes, and it’s literally based on a true story that has happened a hundred times over and the film portrays this as a horrible thing.
Like the story is repellent and horrible because it is supposed to be. This is like a criticism of Schindler’s List because it portrays a genocide.
It’s funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism. How about her fully nude appearance in Playboy at ten?
I can’t imagine volunteering my child to take that role personally. They don’t have the maturity to understand the subject matter
Lately I’ve been considering the idea that people under a certain age (16? 18?) should be banned from television and cinema altogether. My thinking is that it’s a form of child labor, and that they’re not able to consent to fame.
Her mom was a horrible person.
Clearly
This is like a criticism of Schindler’s List because it portrays a genocide.
It’s like criticizing an article about Schindler’s List with the bolded caption “Find out how many kikes can fit in an oven”.
It’s funny because there is plenty of horrifying and deliberately salacious shit that they did with Shields that would merit more criticism.
The quote directly below a photo of her and Woody Allen is more than I needed to see, thanks.
This person made some truly awful arguments, lol
