trotting-on:

I saw the movie eighth grade today and honestly the car scene is so fucking important. it perfectly exemplifies how older boys feel like they can take advantage of younger girls and guilt them into having sex. it also highlights this expectation for girls to “put out” or else they’re prude. the fact that he tells her she’ll be “bad at sex” her first time because she didn’t want to have sex in the back of a car with a boy she didn’t know, who claimed he was “looking out for her,” points to the inevitable truth that someone will eventually judge her for her sexual experiences and that saying no will result in anger and cause her to feel shame and it’s just such a terrible truth of a young girls life to realize all those things and the power a boy can have over her and it was just captured so perfectly