MidnightRose wrote:
Movies are all fake, and everything in them is fake. Even if you simply record a street corner there is so much else you could have chosen to capture, the specific time of day, the angle used, etc. Such a recording is still not "reality" only a representation.
Which isn't to say that women couldn't manipulate men back then, or today, or any day. Women can seduce and manipulate men, man can seduce and manipulate women. Femme fatales are archetypes, and usually are superhumanly good at what they do, like many characters in genre fiction. So in that sense they are fake, because femme fatales are exaggerated fictional characters. But if your friend simply means that women in the 40s and 50s were delicate wallflowers that were incapable of doing things like that then he is simply wrong. Frankly, the stereotypes of the "delicate wallflower" and the "femme fatale" are two sides of a sexist coin. Women in a lot of culture are portrayed as either naive, innocent, and ineffectual, or they are manipulative, slu*ty, and greedy. Both stereotypes are false.
I was going to ask where do these stereotypes come from? I thought most guys prefer a woman who was not ineffectual, but at the same time, did not sleep around with a large number of guys. So wouldn't men prefer to to go after women in the middle rather than, think of them as often as two complete opposite categories?
Why "the middle"? These characteristics gathered in sets are the first level of prejudice.
As a very strong-minded demisexual, I know from personal experience that resourcefullness and sexual drive are completely independent factors.
23 Mar 2021, 10:21 pm
