For Kenny: Teenage Mother Trailer

I found this trailer to be at once, hilarious, sad and an unintentional satire on the views of teenage (particualry female) sexuality.

Note how angry the (Brooklyn?) narrator is as he says "Teenage Mother" with such disgust and then narrates the goings on as if he were reading events with the enthusiam of someone watching grass grow.

Note the "teenage mother" herself, a "fifteen"-year-old who apparently likes to stand in front of her bedroom wall and brush her hair in nothing more than her boots and skivvies. I can think of worse ways to spend a Friday night. She also has a habit of seductively licking what I think is bufflo wings. And how many of us women are guilty of that, right laidies?

Also note the cheap production value, which makes me think that any non-studio film made in the 60s looked like porn, whether it was or not.

Speaking of porn, note the titilation quailty as the teenage mother's sluttiness is driven home, as she "turns brother against brother" and makes it with her main Guy Crush (with the sole intention of getting pregnant to "trap" him, every man's most important fear after losing their penis), the truck driver "We only got an hour..." or, getting randomly raped by some Thunderbird gang.

For me it was the randomness of the rape that made this incredibly sad. Watching it, you can tell the filmmakers want us to believe that she's brought the gang rape on herself for being "loose" in the first place and it doesn't even seem to phase her as the very next shot is her in a doctor's office, not for medical treatment or counseling or anything (lord knows rape victims don't deserve that) but to be told there's no such thing as a "little" pregnant by the surly, curmudgenoy old male doctor, who apparently has held this position for twenty years and knows pregnant when he sees it, by god. The Teenage Mother just sits there, all confus-ed about how this could have happened (hence the tag on the end telling parents they need to watch this with their children so that this doesn't happen to their little vagina-carrying angels.

Then the trailer veers back into man fearing/anti-woman misygony with the teenage mother and her Main Crush sitting in a car with her dropping the news that she's pregnant. Of course, the Main Crush asks if she needs money for an abortion and she promptly retorts that they need to get married, which apparently was her whole plan in the first place.

From that, I want to know two things:

1)We have no idea who the father is. It could be her Main Crush, then again it could be the Truck Driver, or any one of the guys from the gang rape. Which only makes her look even worse for the female manipulation angle they're going for. You can just see guys elbowing each other going, "Too bad they didn't have paternity tests back then, 'eh, 'eh?"

2)If she's getting pregnant DELIBERETLY, then why is this a cautionary tale for young women? It's not like the prenancy happened by accident or at least it's presented this way here. She knew she could "trap" her Guy Crush by getting pregnant which is something she sought out to do, unless I missed something and she was a virgin up until that point and the thing she needed to "trap" the boy she wanted was to finally give it "all" up and this apparently then lead her to turn into a sex crazed maniac, which is, of course, what happens to all young women after the first time they have sex. /snark.

Why aren't there any cautionary films out there about young boys running around imprenating girls? From this, you'd think that she got herself pregnant and the poor boy was just an innocent victim in all of this. God, sexism sucks.