My mother gets SNAP benefits. She has never taken drugs in her life. She doesn’t even drink. She was too busy trying to raise and FEED HER CHILDREN (sometimes with food stamps).

Can you imagine how bizarre this would sound if you swapped the words ‘female’ and ‘male’ in these tweets?

Obviously this was a tool to degrade, punish and infantilise women. I do suspect that one reason it was so popular in movies, though, was that it was a way for the filmmakers to show very direct, passionate physical contact, since they couldn’t show sex. It’s obvious they knew what they were implying, particularly in…