Grandma, is that you?

Also, I read that as “Where’s the Franzia?”

“You better not have been binge watching Mad Men without me!!”

Also, your Year of Reading Diversely carries the implication that after your one year period of isolation, you get to return back to the world of white dudes, but now with more smugness.

I’m very sorry for your experiences and I understand things can be triggering and that these triggers are extremely unpleasant. I can have sympathy for you and still refuse censorship. I don’t agree with censorship.

But what you ask guts the premise of the show. Those scenes are necessary.

We’re just going to have agree to disagree.

Interpreting those scenes as rape goes against that message and the spirit of the show.

Frank is the villain. The villain should do shitty things.

It’s possible to know you *shouldn’t* be doing something and *not want* yourself to want something but still having a consensual and fun sexual experience.

Also, let’s be really clear. I’m not saying that Richard O’Brien is a hack or a rape apologist or a sexist or homophobic or transphobic. I’m not saying that Rocky Horror Picture Show is a terrible movie/musical, and no one should watch it or produce it. I’m also fully aware that the 70s were a VERY different time…

“I could see Brad’s face before me, and my mind screamed - No!”

Like I said, I’m not saying that the original needs to be shunned forever, but there’s some big issues with it (and, as a gay dude, I REALLY don’t like how it treats Brad sexuality. Janet gets to sing about how she’s sexually liberated, and Brad’s song was cut out, and even then, it’s about how he’s not sure he can be…

She knew she wanted it

I haven’t watched some of his older stuff in a while, but I don’t remember John Waters having a problematic rape scene that wasn’t flat out to make you feel uncomfortable and think about what’s going on. And if someone was going to remake a John Waters movie, if there was a questionable rape scene, I would hope they…

Except, this is about a remake and the original question was

She still expresses that she didn’t want to sleep with Frank N Furter and that she would’t have if he had been honest with her. Whatever her relationship with Brad is, Frank crosses a line, and you still sound like you’re saying that she needed to get fucked, no matter how she felt about the matter, and I have an…

Even if you think that she is being repressed by society/someone else, when she says she doesn’t/didn’t want to do something sexual with you, or anyone, you take her at her word and stop or else you are raping her or condoning her rape. You don’t justify it by saying she just needed a good fucking.

And yet, as a society, we’ve been deciding that paying people who work for you with “exposure” and boob jobs isn’t ok, which is why cheerleaders need to make a basic wage, even if they don’t get enough work from the team to pay all of their bills. It’s also why your friend working in jazz thinks he has to pay his…