1987: Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10)
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a national conversation about whether or not women can “have it all” – “it all” meaning both careers and marriage. Is Fatal Attraction an indictment of working women as “witches” and a call to roll back women’s rights, or a snapshot of extreme toxic masculinity? Plus: Dirty Dancing. Is it evil?
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| 0:28.0 | To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret |
| 0:36.4 | and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm your host, Karina Longworth. |
| 0:45.1 | And this is part 10 of our ongoing series, Erotic 80s. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm getting a little fed up at Sex Willy-Emansivated ladies being referred to as brawlers. |
| 0:59.0 | And that doing this because somebody's making me do it. |
| 1:02.7 | You're a strange girl, being an ony-boy. |
| 1:05.3 | Last year he was discovered making amateur videos of his own sex robbers. |
| 1:15.0 | Sexual revolution has been wonderful. |
| 1:17.4 | It's been a remarkable change from sex-eating fence. |
| 1:36.9 | 1987 was maybe the most 80s year of the 80s, |
| 1:41.6 | a year in which a number of snapshots of what it was like to be alive that decade were released. |
| 1:48.3 | It was the year of Tom Wolf's bonfire of the Vanities, |
| 1:52.1 | and Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal. |
| 1:59.6 | For our purposes, the most important thing published in 1987 was the third volume of feminist |
| 2:06.5 | sex researcher, Cher Heitz, on her findings from surveying thousands of American women. |
| 2:14.4 | The Height Report on Love, Passion, and Emotional Violence indicated that a majority of women |
| 2:21.8 | felt that the men in their lives still didn't treat them as equals. |
| 2:27.6 | These women said that when they tried to push their male partners to better fulfill their needs, |
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