James Finn
Dec 7, 2022

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For some reason, I'm thinking about Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear in Risky Business. I'm thinking about the "slutty woman" who asked him if he'd ever had sex on a real train.

I'm thinking that Cruise's character is celebrated for his healthy sexuality — and his expression of it — while a sophisticated, powerful woman who expressed her own sexuality came out looking unwholesome and wrong for him.

Nobody ever asked Tom Cruise to delete that dance, did they?

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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