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wouldshesnip · 8 months
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Brandy, Jean, and Amber Klark (The To Do List)
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Brandy spends the summer before she goes to college trying to have as many sexual experiences as possible, checking each one off her "To Do List" (building up to losing her virginity), but when she sees the penis of the boy she picked to check "give a handjob to" off the list, she's confused and asks her older sister Amber for advice, because "it has weird extra skin" and "doesn't look like it did in health class." Amber thinks it's weird, but still has experience with foreskin. She asks Brandy if his parents are hippies, then begrudgingly explains to her "what you do with the pig in a blanket."
The next morning, after the deed has been done, Brandy asks her mother Jean why some boys aren't circumcised, and Jean tells her that she actually thinks boys shouldn't be circumcised at all (despite having a circumcised husband), because as long as the foreskin is kept clean, an uncircumcised penis is more pleasurable. Her argument wins Brandy over, but Amber is disgusted by the whole thing.
Would She Snip?: No, no, yes
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oxyfilmidentity-fa23 · 6 months
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The To Do List: Sex Comedy in a Woman's Perspective
By: Eliana Joftus. Genre Gender Excess panel presentation
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The To Do List (2013) centers on a recent high school grad Brandy Klark (played by Aubrey Plaza) who wants to lose her virginity before going to college. In order to make this goal happen, she makes a “to-do list” of all the sexual acts she wants to engage in. The To Do List is the epitome of a sex-comedy similar to popular American films like American Pie or Superbad, but it also parodies the genre. Most of Brandy’s sexual experiences turn out to be awkward or disappointing, and her strong and dorky personality only adds to the situational humor. 
In Linda Williams’ article Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess, she writes about sex and bodies in film, and how gendered filmmaking affects how we view female roles in films. The To Do List, directed by a woman (Maggie Carey), actually combats a lot of the problems of female roles in comedy movies. The movie is a sex comedy, so most of the sexual acts end in some sort of humor. William writes in her article that physical clown comedy is a form of body genre, but “it has not been deemed gratuitously excessive” because impressionable audiences don’t feel like they have to mimic the characters’ actions. This means that in some “body genres,” or films where they show sex or human bodies, there is some human desire for audiences to mimic what they see on screen (for example: trying to mimic a scene from a “sexy” movie). But, when the sexual acts become undesirable (for example: in one scene Brandy performs oral sex on a man in the shower but then gets his hairdye in her mouth), it destigmatizes the sexual acts and makes them something relatable and funny instead of a desirable intimate moment.
Ice-breaking question: Can you think of physical clown comedies or sex comedies that oppress the female body or look at the female body from a male gaze?
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Williams writes, “the image of a sexually ecstatic woman [is] so important to the [pornography] genre [because it] is a celebration of female victimization and a prelude to female victimization in real life.” In The To Do List, a woman with a sexual desire is an empowered woman. While her quest does begin with feeling left out from being inexperienced, her ultimate journey helps her realize that sexual acts don’t make her any more or less of a woman. In an interview with writer/director Maggie Carey, she said that she wanted to make a movie about sex from a girl’s perspective, showing that sex can be fun but also very confusing and uncomfortable for a teenage girl. She said she drew on her own and her friends’ experiences as young girls because she wanted to represent this common experience. 
More Questions:
Would you consider a film like this to be “feminist”? (keep in mind everyone has a different definition of feminism!)
Do you think Carey making “sex” part of the humor of the film destigmatized it? 
 Do you think showcasing casual female sexuality in film is empowering or the opposite?
Another interesting thing about the movie is she doesn’t really sexualize any characters. When sexual acts occur in the film, a lot is left up to the imagination and barely any nudity is shown. Do you think this actually is helpful?
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ninasinergydreams · 8 months
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[ICONS] Aubrey Plaza as Brandy Klark in the movie "The To Do List"
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tae27 · 3 months
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andysapril · 3 years
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the to do list + pool shots 
happy summer, y'all!!
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slyrivers · 4 years
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Aubrey Plaza as Brandy Klark in The To Do List (2013)
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riverdaleremix · 4 years
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pagingevilspawn · 3 years
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note to people: do not watch “The To Do List” with your mother. i learned that today. 
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textsfromthehitman · 4 years
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pandalandalopalis · 5 years
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brandy&friends: hooking up with guys 10 years old than them
willy: Protective Older Brother Mode Activated
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ninasinergydreams · 8 months
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[ICONS] Aubrey Plaza as Brandy Klark in the movie "The To Do List"
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ohbabeyeah · 5 years
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iv3mp · 2 years
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✧ we felt the imprisonment of being a girl ✧
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welostinparadise · 7 years
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