Do you see this movie clip as stalking?

[Lotusflower70]

A catchy little Ann-Margret / Elvis song about stalking because it's Saturday night and #LaborDayWeekend https://t.co/QyagDhaMxl

[Warpy]

1. The look on her face is of a tease, playing hard to get.

Real stalkers provoke disgust and/or terror as we frantically dial the cops and hope they get there before the piece of shit breaks in and kills us.

It's one reason I can't stand 60s teenybopper movies, they were all like that.
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[Lotusflower70]

2. Agreed

Context matters. I lived through the experience of a stalker, he never sang to me.

[lunatica]

3. Stalking wasn't even a concept back then and men were told to chase women

The saying "man chases woman until she catches him" was a way everyone thought and acted.

It was socially expected for men to be aggressive and for women to be demure. If a woman was too open to being 'caught' she was considered 'easy'. Or to use today's jargon, a slut.

[Lotusflower70]

4. Thank you

Context matters. This movie is from 1964. Looking at it through a 2017 lens colors it. I didn't live then but I can see how what was acceptable then is different.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Elvis, Elvis, let me be

Keep that pelvis far from me!

[Lotusflower70]

6. Lol

I love it. Grease is so awesome.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. There's some seriously problematic-ass lyrics in some of those songs, though

tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight
tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?

[Lotusflower70]

11. No doubt

That is much more blatant. It's definitely not the highlight moment for me. And it shows the change in what is and isn't acceptable. Of course there are still songs with questionable lyrics.

[edhopper]

7. Not as creepy as

Baby It's Cold Outside.

I really can't stay (but baby, it's cold outside)
I've got to go away (but baby, it's cold outside)
This evening has been (been hoping that you'd drop in)
So very nice (i'll hold your hands, they're just like ice)
My mother will start to worry (beautiful what's your hurry?)
My father will be pacing the floor (listen to the fireplace roar)
So really I'd better scurry (beautiful please don't hurry)
But maybe just a half a drink more (put some records on while I pour)
The neighbors might think (baby, it's bad out there)
Say what's in this drink? (no cabs to be had out there)

Date rape?

[Lotusflower70]

8. Omg!

A radio station where I live did a parody of that song, it was creepy as hell.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Yeah, that's pretty bad.