Sex was more interesting when we knew less about it; when we proceeded from murky impulses rather than easy familiarity. Consider the Victorians, slipping off to secret vices and how much more fun they had than today's Jerry Springer guests ("My girlfriend is a dominatrix"). The intriguing border between the genders must have been more inviting to cross when that was seen as an opportunity rather than a pathology. One of the many virtues of "Boys Don't Cry," one of the best films of the year, is that never once does it supply the tiresome phrase, "I am a man trapped in a woman's body." Its motto instead could be, "Girls just wanna have fun." Teena Brandon doesn't think of herself as a sexual case study; nothing in her background has given her that vocabulary. She is a lonely girl who would rather be a boy, and one day she gets a short haircut, sticks a sock down the front of her jeans and goes into a bar to try her luck. She is no
After last week’s show which opened up with a video to build to the rubber match between Ricochet and Mustafa Ali, we returned to business as usual by Main Event standards. Neither Ricochet or Ali were on the show, nor were they ever mentioned, as both matches were standalone and without context.
Naomi & Lana defeated Dana Brooke & Mandy Rose (6:00)
Not only was this a perfectly fine six-minute tag team bout, but this was the first time that both Lana and Mandy Rose have worked a match on Main Event. For Lana it was a winning debut, while Rose found herself on the losing team.