Well, if you actually payed attention to the nature of the relationship and how it developed, you wouldn't be complaining about sexism. What we have here is a woman whose ego had grown monstrous, leading to filmmakers not wanting to work with her anymore. She loses her friends, because she has become so self absorbed, and when a handsome young man stumbles into her life, she manipulates him into staying at her mansion indefinitely. All these things are symptoms of a personality trait and mental illness know as "being an actual sociopath". It is a real thing. Perhaps if you weren't so bent at looking at sexism where it is not present, you would take the time to look it up. Now, the young writer, Gillis, naturally feels trapped into a relationship by his sympathy for the woman, who is now desperate, manipulative, and vain. So he tries to escape, but she has just grown too lonely to let him go, and she becomes increasingly mad.
A very good point (that you ignored) on another post compared this clearly unhealthy relationship to the relationship between Charles Foster Kane and a young opera singer. Kane has become reclusive, lonely, and has forgotten how to treat the other party in the relationship as she deserves to be treated, so she leaves him to his huge empty mansion devoid of friendship and good times. This scenario from that classic film, is very similar to the one in Sunset Boulevard that you drastically misinterpreted.
Now if you want to talk about a classic film that actually has sexist double standards, look no further than Grease, in which Olivia Newton John changes who she is to please her man, thus denying her true clean cut self to become a sexually active greaser chick.
Now, I humbly request that in the future, you do not complain to the public every time you fail to understand a truly great film.
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