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"They existed to please men, to maintain domestic order, to have children, to prolong the species".
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Yes, we're told that Brick is drinking himself into oblivion because of the death of his best friend, Skipper, to whom he was suspiciously close; that Big Mama exists to please Big Daddy and dotes on Brick; and that Big Daddy is as filled with the hunger for living (which includes good ole sex) as Maggie.
You don't exist to please other people.
But Hefner represents not the sexual revolution for women, but the continued belief that women exist to please men.
Nice girls put themselves last, do what's asked of them without complaint and exist to please others -- teachers, parents, boyfriends, coaches.
Our society does a good enough job of actively sexualizing women and breeding us to believe that there is no deeper self to invest in beyond our bodies, which only exist to please and/or attract men, without us giving in and helping them.
You do not exist to please them.
Challenging the notion that women exist only to please men, she proposed that women and men be given equal opportunities in education, work, and politics.
But freed from the burden of heavy expectations and pretensions -- and price, for that matter -- it exists simply to please.
Likewise, Lethal Weapon's new Murtaugh and Riggs exist purely to please an audience, bouncing off their captain, played by Kevin Rahm (Mad Men's Ted Chaough).
Rather confusingly however, so do Vodafone, Yahoo!, Orange and T-Mobile – all of which have also decided that they exist just to please the consumer.
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