Nobody is accusatorily asking Mr. Bennett what he was wearing when he began his quest to lose his virginity to Ms. Argento, and that's not just because everyone already knows that the answer is "nothing."
What else is nobody calling Mr. Bennett?
Vixen.
Teen temptor.
Jailbait.
Gold digger.
Slut.
Tramp.
Hasbeen.
Wannabe.
Liar.
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Is this what female doctors are being taught in medical school?
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I tried to find out who Dr. Ben-Joseph is by clicking on the link that has her name; the link goes to this website:
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What that means is that the same incredibly stupid and sexist attitudes about gender and sex are continuing to be taught, believed and acted upon by the historically male-dominated medical profession.
Girls sext "for attention"? What is the stupid origin of the idea that females want attention more than males do, or that males are more interested in sex than females are?
Grown men in every culture continue not to be expected to control their behavior around girls and women who are doing nothing to try to attract them, while millions of little girls continue to be held down on tables and floors, screaming while their genitals are mutilated to make them marriageable in cultures which reserve for men the right of nonprocreative sex.
Nobody is blaming Mr. Bennett for Anthony Bourdain's suicide, either, although the inevitability of the story's emergence probably was a source of stress for Mr. Bourdain.
I am not arguing with the payment that was given to Mr. Bennett. He was 17, and underage by a year when he tragically convinced Ms. Argento that he would be able to cope emotionally with having sex with someone her age.
The role that he played in the movie in which he starred with her when he was a child speaks yet again to the entertainment industry's craziness and the terrible greed of stage parents. No good parent allows his or her child to be in a movie like that. Although Ms. Argento's father directed horror movies, that's not a prerequisite for living in the horror movie that the entertainment industry is.
I didn't know what to think of this movie when I saw it in the theater:
Probably like a lot of people, I didn't think about it very much. I haven't spent a lot of my life thinking about movies.
The movie addresses a lot of things that aren't often talked about in conventional public discourse. Among them are:
-definitions of gender
-how definitions of gender impel impressionable people
-how definitions of gender constrict people whose characters are already formed but who feel so stifled that they develop vulnerabilities that make them susceptible to making immoral decisions
-the shame inflicted on sexuality among the elderly
From cradle to grave, women are abused, by men and by women, for not being born male.
