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How do you practice consent in every relationship? How do you show true empathy?

Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright are joined by YouTuber and sex educator, Hannah Witton, to react to Easy A. They dive into the lie Olive takes on and how it spirals out of control. Jonathan talks about how women's sexuality is often focused on anything but a woman's autonomy, and Hannah shares important lessons about consent in all relationships. They reflect on Olive's extreme selflessness which enables others' selfishness and how that pulls Olive further away from her true self.

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Anonymous

So here’s my “hot take” on the parents in this movie. If they were parents of full grown adults they’d be fantastic because their jokes are and can be taken with adult understanding of life nuances. Like the joke about the father being parent of the week. A young kid won’t understand exactly why (beyond oh my parents love each other) and could very well take that as “I’m not loved”. — but if they were parenting a full adult with the life experience of adulthood they’d be fantastic. I think with teens (who don’t have the life experience to know when opening up would be a good thing or not) they would need to be more pushy or at the very least proactive about trying to help her understand that she probably needs to talk or speak up about these red flags. Cause red flags are red flags for a reason- right?

Anonymous

So my hot take is parents need to be a little pushy. Not aggressive but involved and communicative

Anonymous

Thank you so much for covering one of my favorite movies. My entire highschool life, from entry to graduation, was a complete lie. What I "did" and what I was "about" as a person in school was a complete lie and not remotely close to who I was outside of school. And I relate so much to "I'm beginning to hate me too" because living a lie like that where no one knows you for you is so damn painful.

Anonymous

Alan, how is an Oscar winner considered underrated? Lol Maybe she should have some more?

Prim

Didn’t quite expect to be read for filth in an Easy A episode, but here we are 😂 The ending section about consent in a relationship being applicable to your friendships hit me hard because it laid out, bluntly, what was fundamentally hurting me in (what used to be) my closest friendships. These were people I’d known since grade school, who I became closer to in high school. But once we were adults it dawned on me that we had incompatible interests. While I still ~could~ have fun with them, and they were always nice to me, I felt left out from sharing my actual interests and feelings with them, and 70% of the time I wasn’t having a good time. I felt like I couldn’t say “no” to whatever they wanted. I kept thinking that I could learn to live with it, that I should understand that we were simply different people, and often times felt guilty to the point of tears. To wrap it up, the penny finally dropped not too long ago, and I exited myself out of those relationships (from about five people) pretty much all at once. TLDR: a harmful relationship doesn’t have to be something where the hurt is outwardly evident. It can be a lot of little things that build up, all to the point it hurts to be honest with yourself or the people close to you. And as pointed out in this episode, that turns the relationship into a nonconsensual one.

Anonymous

Y'all should consider reviewing "She's the Man". Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum in a modern take on Shakespeare's "A Twelfth Night". Thank you both, and all your supporting cast and crew, for what y'all are doing. Y'all have been helping me more than I can say. Thank you 🥰 #cryingwithalan

Anonymous

WHAT! WHO TOLD YOU? Ehehehe I love it.

Anonymous

Having been at a Friends taping, I can confirm that Lisa Kudrow's cursing is 100% her irl. 😅 Whenever she messed up a line she would go off just like that. She's flippin hilarious!

Anonymous

I think the moral of this story is don't hug Alan

Anonymous

Just realized that the song playing in the background of Penn Badgley and Emma Stone in the car is the same one (albeit a cover) playing in the ending cake scene of Sixteen Candles. Lovely homage to a guy "seeing" and being sweet to someone who thought they were invisible (in that scene...not gonna comment on the rest of the movie and its issues).

Anonymous

Y'all should do Undercover Blues. Stanley Tucci is phenomenal in it.

CinemaTherapy

Jono here. I thought I was the only person on Earth who knew that movie! MY NAME IS MUERTE!