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mother whose boyfriend is sexing her daughter, and the male lead is creepily convincing as the clueless dolt who can't keep his pants zipped. He's not so much a creep, really, as a dumbass. He doesn't prey on the daughter, really ... she is the one who seduces him, ultimately. But of course, the creep factor comes in when he accepts the bait, and continues to screw her even after he discerns it's wrong and he will get caught. The feminism of this film is very clear: the girl wanted sex with an older man, and she got it, repeatedly. From the perspective of the young girl, it's all very understandable. What young female has NOT had a crush on a seemingly worldly older man, whether he is an abstract, unattainable celebrity or a flesh-and-blood creature who lives next door? I can certainly relate. But that doesn't make it right, of course, that an older man should play into the crush, and allow himself to succumb to the ovarian demands of a much younger girl, who's still groping her way around the sexual cosmos. An adult, by nature, should be more in command of his or her impulses. So, from that angle, the fact that the movie does not "moralize" about the cretin who fucked his girlfriend's underage daughter, but simply tells the story as it is, without so much as a hint toward scruple-awareness, is disturbing, to say the least. But from the angle of a young girl's unbridled sexuality coming to life and flourishing, even, it’s refreshing. Women are so often - even today - seen as merely the vessels that satisfy male lust, rather than as sexual beings in and of themselves, with voracious sexual hunger that rivals men's legendary appetites. One of the reasons that women's sexuality historically has been repressed is because men fear its feral potential: Fact. And that's the oxymoronic appeal of "The Diary of a Teenaged Girl" - a film that controversially refuses to judge a sexual transgression on the part of the male, so that the female side of things can be told in an unfettered way.
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