New documentaries about Pamela Anderson and Brooke Shields share similar stories, but have very different endings.
relies on archival clips from talk shows and red carpets to remind us of the piggish one-liners that were made at Anderson’s expense, and the invasive, tactless questions posed to her by men who felt entitled to ask them. In these interviews, Anderson is subjected to repeated leering inquiries that are either explicitly or implicitly about her sex life or her breasts. It’s hard to watch, but it feels especially cruel given the history she lays out for us.
documentary, it’s made clear that society often affords women two choices in life: As in Freud’s famous formulation, they can be the Madonna, or they can be the whore. And once a woman is labeled as a whore, she’s frequently dehumanized by the men who come to see her as a sex object, and treated with callousness by women, who see her as a traitor to the cause. If Anderson ever stood a chance of escaping the categorization, the leak of her sex tape firmly closed the door.
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