Sour Prudes: Difference between revisions

Often a tragic character portrayed as being overly prudish as a kind of [[Sour Grapes]]: "I deny myself my sexuality, so why don't these people do the same thing?". Thus "Sour Prudes". For extra irony, Alice might be pulling the [[Entitled to Have You]] card, based on being such a good girl. This can be especially tragic if she lives in a society where women are economically dependent on men, making her come across as justified -- or at least as a [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot]] who is only trying to survive in [[No Woman's Land]]. In some cases, this might go hand in hand with [[Marital Rape License]]. For example, let's say that Alice is outraged at Charlene for saying that oral sex is okay -- and that the real reason for this outrage is that Alice fears that Charlene's opinion may encourage Alice's husband Bob to try to pressure Alice into having oral sex.

 

 

Compare [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]], [[Internalized Sexism]], [[Lie Back and Think of England]], [[Heteronormative Crusader]] and [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]]. Contrast [[Ethical Slut]], [[For Happiness]] and [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote| '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on you faces?}}

** Bonus points for not looking very wholesome herself. Being a story focused on [[Bromance]], this scene mostly serve to establish women as something annoying in the background.

* In ''[[Attenberg]]'', it is established that Bella is more sexually experienced and that Marina feels inadequate. And then hardly a conversation goes by without Marina calling Bella "whore", "stupid", or (depending on translation) either "wild animal" or "predator".

** Of course, this doesn't stop Marina from using Bella for advice, kissing practice, and even lending her out to her dying father (who had *not* asked his daughter to provide him with women) for a one-night stand.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** The show as such wasn't criticizing abstinence, it was criticizing abstinence-only education that uses scare tactics. At the end of the show, Lois did give a nice speech where she told the students that they shouldn't have sex until they're ready. And if/when they do, to please 'use a condom'.