...sigh... once again, Hollywood has determined that, even with regards to the past, there are still No Girls Allowed.
This was brought to my attention quite recently. The 1984 comedy Splash has received edits on Disney Plus, Disney's streaming service. Apparently edits are made to hide the female protagonist's naked bottom, and ones quite clumsy as well. It's all in the name of retaining the PG Rating for the movie, since PG and G are basically the same thing now, it would seem.
Never mind that X-Men: Days of Future Past has a scene where Wolverine gets out of bed in the nude, and he is clearly supposed to be the subject of the Female Gaze. Never mind that Thor Ragnarok does the same thing Splash does, showing off the innocence of the character whose bottom is being shown by having them not care about the taboo. Never mind that those two films are ones you can and have marketed to children/adults, as Splash was. Some pervert might get the wrong thought from Splash, so it has to be censored!
...even though plenty of female perverts could get the wrong thought from Wolverine or Hulk...
This wouldn't be a problem if we didn't consider the female body inherently sexual. Because it isn't. The character in Splash is simply oblivious to her situation, nothing about it is sexual. Put a male in her situation and the joke is the exact same. There's a reason The Terminator has the punks doing their "Nice night for a walk" thing.
The only difference is one joke can be made today. The other cannot. The bigotry of low expectations strikes again...