In this post MeToo era, are we really still pressuring young people to have sex or risk being seen as uncool?
The film’s defence goes like this: the character J-Law is assigned to sleep with is 19 and therefore able to consent. Lighten up already. Except simply having been on the planet for 6,570 days doesn’t automatically mean that you’re “ready” for sex. In fact, the “kid” in this film is quite clearly not ready, yet his nervousness and anti-Besides, being over the legal age of consent isn’t a green light that makes it OK for anyone and everyone to aggressively hit on you.
Of course, the temptation is to say that this film would never be made the other way around; the optics of a man in his thirties trying as many pushy tactics as he can think of to get into the underwear of a teenage girl would not be good. But while there’s a definite Hollywood precedent for those sorts of films, I’m not sure that the way to level the playing field is to flip the script gender-wise.
In this post MeToo era, with conversations around consent being had everywhere from high schools to football clubs, are we really still pressuring young people to pop their cherry or risk being seen as uncool? Not to mention the unaddressed issue of Maddie trying to have sex with Percy in exchange for a car. And to think that this got made while we’re still waiting for
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