Sex/uality Artifacts

Hi, I’m Hallie Hayden and the second artifact I presented was a scene from the movie “Grandma’s Boy.” In the scene a young many ends up having sexual relations with an older woman. I related this video clip to the article we read for class “Feeling Old and Ugly? Look again.” These two things relate because the article is about an older woman who is seeing herself and her body in a new light, she is appreciating her body and thinks that it is beautiful in older age. The video shows an older woman very comfortable in her sexuality, which is something we don’t see very often, especially not portrayed in media, which is another thing the article talks about. In this video clip the old woman feels sexy, and is portrayed as a very sexual being. When I first watched I thought it was a scene like others I have seen in funny movies, where having sex with an older woman is portrayed as a joke, and something not to be take seriously. Yet when I was asked if this scene was a joke, I thought about it again. She is not really portrayed as laughable, she is meant to be skilled in sexual acts, and the young man actually enjoys his time with her. I believe that older women should be portrayed in media as beautiful and sexual way more often. We all are going to age, and it shouldn’t be something shameful, we shouldn’t lose joy in life with age we should gain it. Getting older does not mean getting uglier. Hopefully, as the woman did in the article, we can all learn to appreciate our bodies as we age and learn to love the skin we are in, from now until we are old and grey.