20th Century Women Page #4

Yes.

I had two miscarriages before

Abbie,

the doctor told me to take it.

DES was a fertility medication.

Doctors prescribed it to women.

Later they found out

that the daughters...

of the women who took it...

Got cervical cancer.

I didn't know that

you had miscarriages.

When her mom found out it was

because she took that drug...

she wouldn't talk about it.

And everything Abbie did.

made her mad.

So Abbie looked for another place to live.

- Hi.

- Hello.

And she started renting the room

upstairs.

I'm Abbie.

And she got a job at the news press.

- Hi Dorothea.

- Hi, Charlie.

Hi.

You wanna go out sometime?

Get a drink?

Yeah.

What the heck, Charlie?

Sure.

okay.

I wasn't sure.

What?

Some of the guys thought

you are a lesbian.

You know.

Which I don't have a problem

if you are.

But you are not.

You know I'm not.

Shall we go out then?

Okay, yeah.

Sure. You wanna come to dinner

at my house again sometime?

Good...

We could do that.

Sh*t!

Julie.

It's really, it's nothing.

I just end up there sometimes.

What do you guys do?

I just sleep.

We talk.

Can I have one?

No, they are really bad for you.

You smoke all the time.

You know, when I started they weren't

bad for you,they were just stylish.

Sort of edgy, so...

It's different for me.

Okay.

You're good at hiding stuff, huh?

My mom calls it compartmentalizing.

Apparently I do that a lot.

Are you helping him?

I am trying.

Really?

What about you?

Have you thought about

your impact on him?

It's always about the mother.

Like, do you think you've

moved on, since his dad?

You know that you're not actually a

therapist right?

I've had new guys, okay?

No one appropriate.

Appropriate?

Guys you're not going to

risk anything with.

Men you don't even really like.

Listen, you're 17, Okay?

Maybe you don't know what's good

about these guys.

That I really like.

I'm talking about you.

You never seem into it.

Except for with William.

But...

He is inappropriate.

Okay, Jesus.

Yeah.

It's hard to find someone that I like.

I had my chance, twice.

But that part of life just

didn't work out for me.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Where were you?

I had some errands.

You did the whole list?

You know all the stocks?

Yeah.

IBM is down.

Sorry, I'll fix it next time.

Good job on that.

William.

Yes.

Do I seem stuck to you?

How do you mean?

Well, I guess I wouldn't know, Would I?

- Abbie.

- Yes?

Let's go out tonight.

I want to see this modern world.

Can I go?

I don't know if I'm going to

find an appropriate man here.

Thank you.

What was that?

What does that mean?

Don't kiss a woman if you unless you know

what you mean by it.

Aren't you sleeping with Abbie?

That's not something serious, is...

Then why do it?

It's 1979, I am 55 years old...

This is what my son believes in.

These people.

With this hair... And these clothes.

Making these gestures, making these sounds.

It's 1979 and I am 55 years old...

and in 1999 I'll die of cancer from smoking.

Hey!

- You going?

- Yeah.

Do me a favor, just,

take care of Abbie.

They don't know this is the end of punk,

They don't know that Reagan's coming.

It's impossible to imagine that

kids will stop dreaming...

about nuclear war, and have

nightmares about the weather.

It's impossible to imagine

HIV.

what will happen with skateboard

tricks.

The Internet...

- Did you have a good time?

- Yeah, it was interesting.

- So Abbie has your number, right?

- Yeah.

- Give you a call for dinner.

- I would like that.

Kid...

It's late...

How was it?

It was Life changing.

Before I die I will prepare for Y2K.

I will put Canned food and water in the

garage.

I put 16 thousand dollars

worth of gold coins...

into a safe deposit box at the Bank of

Montecito.

I died before the New Year...

Dolphin-shaped balloons

floated over my head.

They were playing Louis

Armstrong on a Boombox.

Jamie?

Sorry, are you awake...?

I just wanted to tell you that

you have to get out of this town.

If you want to have any chance...

of an interesting life moving forward.

What happened?

Sorry, sh*t!

We don't have sex.

I just sleep here.

Okay...

- Can I lay down?

- We were sleeping.

- Just lay down here.

- It' Okay, I'm just gonna talk...

to Jamie for a second...

So Lynette Winters spit on me.

So then I hit her.

- Why'd she spit on you?

- Because I spit on her.

Right before I was

going to New York

and I thought I was

never gonna come back.

It felt very liberating at the time.

And somehow I ended up breaking a chair.

- Hey Julian, I'm sorry.

- You okay?

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

And then William told me...

he didn't wanna sleep with me anymore.

What are you saying?

I don't like you...

I don't like you. I don't like...

Just...

I'm just gonna talk to Jamie

for a second...

You can not let her sleep here.

If she's not having sex with you,

it's dis-empowering.

Also you need to get out of this town

before you start working.

at a sunglasses shop...

and it goes for you too.

Jamie, here is some books...

from a feminism class I took...

I thought it would be helpful for you,

to get a woman's perspective.

- What happened to your lip?

- I got in a fight.

- What?

- There was a fight.

It was, it was ridiculous...

Hold on, is that "Our Bodies Our Selves"?

This is a really good book...

There is a very good chapter...

On home births.

Home births actually stunts the

baby's growth personality.

- What is a growth personality?

- It's a real term.

Who knows what it means for a new born...

to see wood walls, and...

carpeted floors and to smell...

real human smells and to feel...

wool and cotton and flannel clothes...

instead of starchy, white...

deodorized... To me,

that meant like, and what else?

Women's sexuality,

defined by men to benefit men.

has been downgraded and perverted,

repressed and channeled.

Anatomically, all orgasms are

centered in the clitoris.

whether they result from direct manual

pressure applied to the clitoris.

indirect pressure resulting from...

I f***ed Heather so hard,

she came like three times.

- How did you stimulate her clitoris?

- With my dick.

Women need direct clitoral stimulation.

Like with fingers. Or vibrators.

Or something.

She probably faked it.

women fake it all the time.

Talking Heads're a bunch of fags.

Actually there's a girl in their band...

And she's dating the drummer, so...

Her name is Danna...

F***in' around f*ggot.

So, what was the fight about?

Clitoral stimulation.

Why do you need to fight about that?

I don't know,

I wanna be a good guy...

Okay. I just wanna...

be able to satisfy a woman.

Kid, I'm sure you will.

Sh*t!

Jamie!

That's not cool...

Yeah, That's what Matt called me.

For liking the talking heads.

- And what is Black Flag?

- It's a hardcore band.

So...

The people who love Black Flag,

hate the Talking Heads.

What?

The punk scene is very divisive.

Hey!

You are all so advanced,

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