Jared's Trivialization and movie post

I was very interested in McKee's account of the background on the origins of the private sphere in western societies. I thought it was interesting that at the time of the private sphere's creation in the 17th century that items of the public sphere (politics and current events) were expected to be known private citizens. If a private citizen was not savvy on the issues of the public sphere they were called an "idiot." What's most interesting about that to me is that the matters of the public sphere were not deemed appropriate or worthy of female attention, therefore women were idiots? That very assertion of the public sphere's intended audience greatly influenced the heirarchy in the power dynamic between men and women.

Movie : Superbad

I was talking to a friend of mine recently about the teen-comedy Superbad. My friend is a self-proclaimed feminist and was telling me that she had read a female critic's extremely negative review of the film stating that it was incredibly sexist and objectifying of women. I liked Superbad, but not so much that I couldn't see the validity in those arguments by the female reviewer. I definitely do think that there is a lot of objectifying of women in that movie as well as the teen-comedy genre in general. I've seen a good amount of teen movies over the years that have a similar premise of "losery" guys trying incredibly hard to get laid by beautiful women. During the process of these "losery" guys trying to get laid by women, whom they seem to worship mainly as objects of sexual desire, they're usually turned down in a pretty shameful manner at some point. I think the initial rejection of the character "Seth" in Superbad as well as foiled aggressors in other teen-sex movies is a very positive statement on the progression of women in modern society. That rejection uplifts women and shows that women are independent and are not at the beckon call of men. They have the right to choose who they want to be intimate with and worshipping them solely as sexual objects will not get you laid. It's typically not until a character shows some sort of depth that they are accepted voluntarily by the women as a sexual partner.