Some Girls Do
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Margaret Leroy. Some Girls Do
MARGARET LEROY. Some Girls Do
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Contents
CHAPTER 1 COURTSHIP TODAY
COURTSHIP SCRIPTS: The hundred and fifty initiatives
COURTSHIP LIBERALS: Passive – moi?
COURTSHIP CONSERVATIVES: From the Stone Age
COURTSHIP LIFE-CYCLES: Looking for love
COURTSHIP STORIES: What a man's still gotta do
CHAPTER 2 WOMEN WHO DO
ALTRUISTIC WOMEN: Kissing the frog
BAD WOMEN: Watering the tree of strife
BAD WOMEN TODAY: Get down to business
BEAUTIFUL PREDATORS: She took me to her faery grot
LIBERTINE WHORES: Those scandalous stages of my life
FAT FUNNY WOMEN: Come up sometime and see me
OLDER WOMEN: Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson
LITTLE GIRLS: I got sommat to show you
PERVERSE WOMEN: I really fancy you and Josh
CHAPTER 3 WOMEN’S FEARS
FEMALE SHAME: Why true love still waits
GIRLS AND THEIR REPUTATIONS: Inside she’s a Skoda
THE SCARLET LETTER: Tales of pleasure and punishment
COMPETITION BETWEEN WOMEN: An out-of-date Barbie doll
WOMEN’S CAUTIONARY TALES: Acting really slaggy
CHAPTER 4 MEN’S DOUBTS
TRUE CONFESSIONS: At least the lads won't sneer
ACTUAL FEMALE INITIATIVES: Some sort of walking dildo
SEX WITH STRANGERS: He’d thank her, not sue her
COURTSHIP AGGRESSION: It’s like feeding animals
THE ROBBER BRIDE: Chasing away his erection
WELCOME FEMALE INITIATIVES: She came and took me to bed
CHAPTER 5 MYTHOLOGIES
MALE MYTHOLOGIES: You have to make the moment
HEROES: There where they saw it to be thickest
MEN’S STORIES TODAY: Stepping off the cliff
FEMALE MYTHOLOGIES: The princess in the tower
TELEPHONES: The painful part of the game
MAGIC: One way to fish for your boy
KEEPING WOMEN DOWN: A special kind of domination
TURNING MEN ON: Resistances to satisfaction
TURNING WOMEN ON: Someone big and tall and fiery
CHAPTER 6 LOOKS AND SMILES
SOPHIE: I didn’t want to look obvious
WOMEN MAKING IT HAPPEN: The electric moment
EXTREMELY BLOODY AMBIGUOUS: Reading women’s signals
APPEARANCE AS A SEXUAL SIGNAL: Faster, don’t try to talk!
AMBIGUITIES: A miniskirt on a feminist
CHAPTER 7 DO WOMEN SAY NO AND MEAN YES?
COMPLICATED ‘NO’S: I’ll agree in ten minutes
JESSICA: Unavailable till the last minute
PLAYING BY THE RULES: I’m not particularly proud
BEN: I wasn’t going to be thwarted
COURTSHIP LIES: There’s a promise made in any bed
CHAPTER 8 MONEY
A LITTLE LIZARD: The role of money in courtship
GOOD TIMES: Courtship spending today
WARM-NATURED DIRECTOR SEEKS VULNERABLE LADY: What men’s money means to women
HOUSES OF VIRGINS: What men’s money means to men
WERE THERE KISSING OR NO KISSING: The downside for women
YOU ALWAYS PAY ANYWAY: The downside for men
RICH AS A TROLL: What women’s money means to women
THE HAIRDRESSERS’ TALE: Women with money and men with none
CHAPTER 9 DANGER
THE PREDATOR: Why are we so afraid?
THE VAMP NARRATIVE: How Jennifer courted death
DANCES WITH WOLVES: Is it risky to ask men out?
PROTECTING YOURSELF: Why you should buy the popcorn
CHAPTER 10 HOW TO
COMING ON STRONG
LOVE IN THE AGE Of AQUARIUS
WHAT KIRSTEN DID
References. Chapter 1 Courtship Today
Chapter 2 Women Who Do
Chapter 3 Women’s Fears
Chapter 4 Men’s Doubts
Chapter 5 Mythologies
Chapter 6 Looks and Smiles
Chapter 7 Do Women Say No and Mean Yes?
Chapter 8 Money
Chapter 9 Danger
Chapter 10 How To
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author. SOME GIRLS DO
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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These films all supply intriguing glosses to the traditional narrative movement. Yet for all their variety, they only deviate within the conventional parameters. They explore different kinds of male sexual power: the cynical and sadistic power of the seducer, the financial power of the man who uses a prostitute, the erotically explicit control of the man who strikes a sexual bargain that allows him to make all the moves, and, in Four Weddings, the highly tentative and self-conscious instrumentality of Charles the New Man, who finds it such a struggle to do what a man’s gotta do. In all these love stories, it’s still the man who sets the terms of the bargain, makes the arrangements, defines, pursues, seduces. We’re playing around with the script, we’re self-conscious about it – but we aren’t yet going beyond it.
The seeds of change are there – in public and in private. Our favourite public love stories – the films we all go to see – are questioning the traditional roles, yet they rarely transcend them. And when people talk about their own courtship behaviour, they emphasize their deviations from the classic script, as though hungry for things to be different. But mostly it’s still men who make the initial moves. Yet, of course, there are women who initiate and there always have been. Who are these women and what can we learn from them?
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