Women as hapless sainted martyrs. Yeah--right. Lizzie Borden the director--what kind of name is that?--the alleged ax murderer of 19th century Fall River Massachusetts. The main character in this Working Girls movie can't get a job as a secretary or doesn't want to, so she "has to" become a hooker in Manhattan! Believe it or not, ladies--there are other options and career choices besides those two. You would not know that from this movie though!
This is a mid-1980s movie, but it smacks of the sexual politics era of the late 1960s-early 1970's, when many women didn't know all that much about sex and had to use a lot of political jargon to express their urges. Books like "Sexual Politics" and "Our Bodies Ourselves" and "The Women's Room."
Many of these books of that era were written by gay women who were unwilling or unable to state that they were gay or that they were expressing a "gay women's" political point of view. Their assertions were always that all women should hate men and be gay, because they could not understand anything else--they could not comprehend any kind relationship between men and women other than hostility and exploitation. Yep--that was the early 1970's!
So the main character in this film--the older hooker in the brothel--when she is not having sex for money with unlikeable men--is living at home with her teenage gay lover. But in fact, despite the "politics" of this movie, having sex with underage women is still a crime, regardless of the gender of the "adult."
In this film this woman is presented as some kind of People's Hero. But if a male character in this movie was having sex with a teenage girl he would be considered a "monster" or "predator." Talk about the double standard! Do not become hookers folks, and do not have sex for money, and do not have sex with underage women! And maybe skip this film. OK?
This is a mid-1980s movie, but it smacks of the sexual politics era of the late 1960s-early 1970's, when many women didn't know all that much about sex and had to use a lot of political jargon to express their urges. Books like "Sexual Politics" and "Our Bodies Ourselves" and "The Women's Room."
Many of these books of that era were written by gay women who were unwilling or unable to state that they were gay or that they were expressing a "gay women's" political point of view. Their assertions were always that all women should hate men and be gay, because they could not understand anything else--they could not comprehend any kind relationship between men and women other than hostility and exploitation. Yep--that was the early 1970's!
So the main character in this film--the older hooker in the brothel--when she is not having sex for money with unlikeable men--is living at home with her teenage gay lover. But in fact, despite the "politics" of this movie, having sex with underage women is still a crime, regardless of the gender of the "adult."
In this film this woman is presented as some kind of People's Hero. But if a male character in this movie was having sex with a teenage girl he would be considered a "monster" or "predator." Talk about the double standard! Do not become hookers folks, and do not have sex for money, and do not have sex with underage women! And maybe skip this film. OK?