The Cancel Culture

The backlash against the fallen woman films of the late 1920s and 1930s was representative of a larger social panic over changing sexual mores and Hollywood’s role in glamorizing female aggressiveness, delinquency, and prostitution.We often hereabout “cancel culture” mostly in relation to sexual misconduct or racist behavior, does “cancel culture” affect men more than women?Compare and/or contrast the social panic about “fallen women” films to more recent ones in your lifetime (ex: the “wardrobe malfunction” of Janet Jackson during halftime of the 2004 Super Bowl).How are these events indicative of much larger concerns and anxieties circulating in society?