aberration: NASA Webb image of the Carina nebula (hang me from a hook)
veronica ([personal profile] aberration) wrote in [personal profile] wakeupnew 2009-09-09 07:17 am (UTC)

I can't even. It just - I don't even think portraying sexual assault is inherently a bad thing (though, did they not even have some kind of warning first? Fuck.), but it is so consistently done for the same reasons: for pure shock value, because women are only around for sex so there's no other way to target them, and because of how it affects men. I've even had the experience of watching what in this case was a movie and getting that feeling that something is going on in your reaction to it but you're not really sure what it is until it suddenly hits you, and pretty much fell apart in the movie theater, but was ultimately okay with it because even though I felt like shit, it wasn't shocking or brutal, but it spoke to that experience and I could read that all over the characters. And that wasn't being blown off for, nor completely structured around advancing a male narrative.

And as much as they can say that 'accurate' crap - it's a narrative. They're writing it. They're choosing what happens for a purpose. This is not something out of anyone's control. It's not real life. When it comes to something like that, which was clearly a narrative decision and not something they were compelled to do to portray some sort of experience, the 'accuracy' argument is crap.

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