"Women Don't Have To Be Fucked And Say Thank You"

Evan Rachel Wood is one of those fuck-yeah feminists and fuck-yeah people in general that I just don't really understand, but can't help but admire.  She is so determined and bad ass- I took a class with her private acting coach once. We were in a group, playing a tossing game to improve concentration and trust.  The teacher stopped us at one point after several drops of the ball and insisted that if Evan were playing she would've knocked us down and punched people to catch that ball and we had better get on it.

In her twitter feed Evan talks about how frustrated she is that a scene from her movie "Charlie Countryman" had to be cut because the MPAA was threatening to rate the film "X" with it in.  The scene supposedly involves oral sex on a female which Evan rightly points out would unlikely be an issue if the genders were swapped.  She goes on to say that juxtaposed with the violence of the piece, the shootings and murders heavily outstrip the sexuality in terms of being objectionable and, furthermore, if the male were also being pleasured it is unlikely the scene would have been as much of an issue.

I myself can only think of one instance of female pleasuring in a recent film I've seen: when Nick fingers Nora in Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.  I remember thinking it was a bit brave and startling to have that in a rather tame film, though if I recall correctly they show no nudity and only allude to the act with sounds and innuendoes.  When I really think about it, how is that shocking at all? Because we just don't often see cinematic females being presented as sexual beings, as Evan mentions in her tweets.

However, I can think of several instances of male pleasuring or flat out intercourse that were rather involved (Basic Instinct for example?) and yet remained R. I think Evan has a good point, though I would reserve judgement after actually seeing the scene in question.  Nevertheless, it made me think about the lack of female pleasuring (not in conjunction with male pleasuring or mutual sex) seen onscreen.

Evan's Comments:
http://junkee.com/evan-rachel-wood-slams-censorship-accept-that-women-dont-have-to-be-fucked-and-say-thank-you/24424