Well a lot of photos at the Chosen Two website date to around circa 2004 or thereabouts and she's very sexualized in some of them. But then again there are photos of SMG when she was a barely in her teens that sexualize her - or at least fetishize her beauty to an uncomfortable degree. And yes, I looked - and then felt guilty. Visual pleasure is visual pleasure. But I don't know how to break the cycle. As a woman, I enjoy dressing up and being attractive, although not as frequently as when I was much younger. I don't deny anyone else's right to dress up. But these photos are specifically marketed to all of us - and women are culturally fetishized when young, then marginalized or erased as we mature. How to break that cycle? Is my making icons of pretty pictures only feeding into the dominant paradigm?

Hah, you see that ameliorates it a bit, you're her contemporary. I'm old and gross. *lol* (ok, in my 40's but to S4 Buffy....Of course my sweetie was completely freaked out when she realized I was 17 years her junior and I was all, "age doesn't matter!" Of course I would say that, I was 20-something, what did I know?)

And hey, when did MT do a project with Joseph Gordon-Levitt? http://www.chosentwo.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=8&pos=135

ETA: Oh wait, she was in Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" (2004).Which is about childhood sexual abuse. (oh the irony) http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mysterious-skin-2005 Which got three and a half stars and a glowing review from Roger Ebert, which is better than any other cast member fared critically. What happened to her film career? Is she more of a writer now?