Noted for the record

IFC is running a mini-series called Indie Sex, looking at the treatment of sex in various films. In an episode running tonight, the focus is sex in teen films.

One of the talking heads-I'm sorry I didn't catch the name, but it was a woman-brought up Fast Times In Ridgemont High. Specifically, the scene in which Jennifer Jason Leigh loses her virginity in a baseball dugout.

She praises director Amy Heckerling for visualizing the scene from the girls point of view. Specifically for things like the shots of the grafitti that Leigh's character, Stacy, sees on the walls and roof of the dugout.

Going on to smugly add that, if a man had directed this scene, it would have been all about how the guy was gonna "get some."

Well, all right...unless you've read the book upon which Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based, which I have. And remember that Stacy's noticing the grafitti was in the book, which I do.

And who wrote the book (and for that matter, although I'm sure it doesn't, the screenplay)?

Cameron Crowe.

Yeah, no man could ever see things from the girls POV, could they?