Men Writing Women: Sam Levinson

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I disagree. Levinson has always been about family, gods, and guns. He's the quintessential privileged hollywood man who stole the current zeitgeist's most radical topics and commodified it by stealing from other writers and creators. This happens time and time again.

Being a good writer and being a good person are different things. He is a good observant and can write realistically - its a skill, he saw a gap in the market and many men just love writing about minorities its a fetish or even gender envy. But being a good person it eventually comes out youre not. Many great singer who wrote beautifuly were terrible abuser and predators

You dissing your make up literally while i was excitedly looking up pictures of the black swan makeup because you reminded me of that and i need to recreate something like this 😬

Question… is it possible for a work to be artistically great while also being morally repugnant?

26:45 love this part

Sorry, white women are protected in the sex industry? Women are murdered and suffer PTSD in an industry that destroys them at an alarming rate. Almost like men that use women as objects to masturbate on cannot see women as human beings and pay to have power over them. 90% of women on the industry do it because they have no other means of survival. There is therefore no consent when you have no choice, it is ra.e

24:41 Is it really society that's obsessed with porn? Or doth Mr. Levinson protest too much?

Also ironic that he starts spouting about "traditional" family values after saying this, cuz these are both pushed by extremely toxic Christian fundamentalism/cults.

i think you're largely correct but i have a much more cynical view of him i suppose: i think the "exploration" of sex work and lascivious material was, in hindsight, an example of the "author's barely disguised fetish" as the meme goes. his portrayal of women always rubbed me the wrong way even when he was lauded and seen as a feminist icon. there's nothing wrong with women being sexually active or telling difficult stories but the portrayal of the underage girls in assassination nation and euphoria, save for rue, felt to me oversexualized and objectifying and the consequences of misogyny the characters suffer from feel almost like it was put there to justify these portrayals. i was never sexually active as a teen but i knew plenty of girls in high school who probably would have related to these characters and i knew they were suffering deeply from the way they were being treated by men, and that there was nothing sexy or glamorous about it. they were being groomed, raped, and abused, some girls i know barely escaped with their lives into adulthood and recovery from the drugs and exploitation. i was absolutely horrified at seeing what was happening to them and i had absolutely no desire to be like that, but i felt implicit pressure that this was how it was "supposed" to be and i felt like euphoria reflected that, i was mocked for being "childish" by my peers and not wanting to be "adult" but some of the girls who'd suffered in this way told me directly to stay the way i was and, bluntly speaking, not become like them. i felt like the feelings and the suffering experienced by myself and my peers were not accurately reflected by sam levinson's writing and was glamorized, maybe i'll even go as far as to say made almost pornographic. when he showed his true colors, i honestly felt vindicated after feeling odd for thinking he was a misogynist this whole time.

I loved assassination nation and im sad this is where we've gotten 😪

Not to pat myself too hard on the back, but I clocked this shit *instantly*. Why wouldn't you?
Long before the show every released a single episode, I knew enough about the premise that I knew it very much was not for me. I assumed it was some chick show MADE BY A CHICK exploring her own experience dealing with her growing sexuality when she was in high school. Not something that I thought shouldn't exist, but something I wasn't remotely interested in watching.
When I found out a guy was the show-runner, I immediately assumed he was a FUCKING CREEP. Because no world exists where a middle-aged powerful man is the show-runner of a show exploring those topics for reasons other than he's a fucking creep.
Why does this show have an audience? Why does this show have an audience? I don't get it.

That last quote is exactly what I noticed through the bit of S3 I saw. I very much don't recommend.

Such a trip that YT vids have different titles depending on which acct. is being used. This is my more "serious" acct., but on my other acct. the title of this video is "Men
Writing Women: Sam Levinson".

Also, fantastic take on all this Sam Levinson & Euphoria discourse. Great video!!!

I'm sorry but writing teens to dress like that and literally showing whats supposed to be teenagers naked is creepy and sexualizing teens

17:20 soon as I saw the black shirt on the black turtleneck this guy was fired