Your Cinematic Crush Is a Stalker (Um, and That's a Problem) Panel One Text: Your Cinematic Crush is a Stalker: Say Anything. Text: How the Romantic Lead Acts Lloyd and Diane (two teenagers) speak to one another from across a lawn. Lloyd: Even though you asked me to leave you alone and you are distressed because your father was just put in jail, I want your undivided attention and am willing to demand it. Panel Two Text: How the Love Interest Responds Diane: Well, my life just got turned upside down, so you may as well follow me when I go to college in Europe because I need a strong male in my life. Panel Three Text: What Should Happen Lloyd has lowered his boombox and appears startled. Diane: You are trespassing, harassing me, and I’m pretty sure playing that song for 24 hours violates a noise ordinance! Panel Four Text: Your Cinematic Crush is a Stalker: Twilight Edward and Bella (a 119-year-old vampire and a high school student) are in a bedroom speaking to one another in front of a window through which the moon can be seen. Panel Five Panel Six Panel Nine
How Can You Tell if You're Being Sexually Empowered or Objectified? Ask Yourself This Simple Question Panel 1 Narrator: You’ve probably heard the argument before. Person 1: (pointing at a feminine person in a stereotypically “sexy” pose) That photo is terrible! She’s being sexuality objectified! Person 2: No it’s not! She can do what she wants with her body! Narrator: It can be difficult to tell the difference between sexual empowerment and sexual objectification when the only distinguishable difference is that one is supposedly “good” and the other “bad.” Panel 2 Narrator: So what is the difference? That is, who is controlling a person’s presence in the sexual situation? (Image of a see-saw, with one end holding one person labeled “looked at,” another person labeled “looking.” Narrator: However, if that person has no or little power, they are being sexually objectified (basically, made like an object instead of a person). (Next to “Sexual Empowerment” is another see-saw labeled “Sexual Objectification.” Panel 3 Panel 4 Narrator: Let’s start here. Panel 5 Panel 6 Panel 7 Panel 8 Panel 9 Panel 10