Picturing Bianca

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Henry M wrote:
> The only relationship I can imagine between Brooke in "Pretty Baby"
> and Bianca <get you mind out of the gutter, kids> is that they are
> both children raised as sexual and in sexual situations. I can't even
> say that they are similarly "objects."
> 
> Yes, saw the movie. Brooke Shields greatest moment, in fact. 
> But, please explain how my suggestion and explanation that Brook
> Shields has very little to do with Bianca isn't relevant to your post.
> Sorry if you didn't like the critique, but "no relationship?"

Sorry if my response came across as defensive or churlish--didn't mean it
that way.  It truly seemed to me that you were thinking of Shields as she
is now, and didn't realize that she had been in a movie as a child where
she was portrayed as a sexual object.  The various posts on the topic have
convinced me that my poorly-thought-out comparison made on the spur of
the moment in response to Joe's question was, indeed, poorly thought out.
T-that's it, it was that Joe's fault!

	Steve Maas


> > I wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > I guess if I was to picture Bianca it would
> > > > maybe be as Brooke Shields in _Pretty Baby_--a _very_ disturbing
> > > > movie that presented, unfortunately, apparently commonplace true
> > > > facts. 
> > > 
> > To which HenryM responded:
> > > Brooke Shields! Bianca is described as not having fully outgrown
> > > her babyfat; Brooke was bred and raised to never have any. Maybe
> > > you like the way she looks, but she was never "cute." Brooke was
> > > never a child and she was never sexual. I think part of what
> > > people find disturbing about Bianca is that she Is a child A-and
> > > is sexual.
> > 
> > Henry, your observations about Shields seem to have no relationship
> > to my post.  Have you seen the movie I mentioned? (At least I
> > _think_ it was her in that movie...is my memory that bad?)
> > 
> > 	Steve Maas