The horror movie rape trope plays up the idea that only monsters and monstrous cartoonishly-villainous men rape women. Also, it still brings up the voyeuristic possibilities associated with sex, without having to worry about the associated ratings that go with things the MPAA sees as sexual.

I’m amazed at how you can bring up Fury Road to make your hackneyed point, lol. And to be so inelegantly reaching to make your alternate-reality points while calling me an idiot? Lolololol. Again, I made a mistake in responding to you, as I didn’t initially recognize your name and remember you as the troll that you…

I’m so sorry—I didn’t realize who you were. And lol for your version of reality where these cackling women revel in gory violence against men.

FYI this Burn baby burn person lovvvvveeees to start shit so avooooid.

Ok, before I answer, I want to preface this by saying I haven’t seen this movie. From the reviews I’d read before now, I sounded like the kind of horror I might get something out of (its not a genre I enjoy), but it’s a hard pass from me now.

Here’s how old and pervasive this trope is:

Look like the men who are running things are doing it in a way that we both find distasteful. If all the violence against men in movies, as well as jokes about prison rape bother you, maybe you can take steps to express to the men who make those movies and most of those jokes why it’s a problem. Stop paying money to…

Joss Whedon handled this very well in Objects In Space from Firefly. He has a character ask one of the regulars, as she’s being tied up, “Have you ever been raped?” It’s just horrifying. The woman starts to cry and shrivel up in terror, which is precisely what the guy’s after: he wants her too scared to try to get…

Print publications already assign about 75% of film reviews to male reviewers, resulting in a really skewed, biased critical consensus about the effectiveness of plotlines about women being raped by men. You look to internet publications aimed at women from reviews that get away from that tired perspective.

“I’m not a rapist,” says man who clearly does not understand the definition of “rape”. Same as it ever was.

When Mandy Patinkin left Criminal Minds he said something to the effect that he didn't realize it was going to be a show about torturing women when he signed on.

she is accidentally shot in the fracas

Exactly! I recently dropped out of an independent film project, written by two men, in which of the two central characters were women with very important jobs. So far so good!

this is exactly it. it’s a scene that goes for clever but betrays a stunningly naive understanding of the dynamics at play.

Well, we have to use our natural feminine empathy and compassion. Fortunately men don’t have any of that to get in the way of their revenge.

I swear this was the plot of an episode or five of Criminal Minds.

I hadn’t even heard about this movie till now. It sounds awful... and I really hate the whole “stopping women from killing for revenge” thing.

The baster scene sounds like the male fantasy of what a female fantasy would look like.

Even more tellingly, the “Baster Scene” as described in the Mashable review is not when the woman is hog-tied and about to be penetrated; they use that tag for the baster-in-the throat revenge. I’m glad that you brought this up, Joanna, since I decided immediately I couldn’t recommend the movie to any female friends…

Man, if you need this gonzo shit to up the ante in your suspense/horror movie, you’re just not a very good writer. The sexual violation of women is not a seasoning; you can’t toss in “just a dash” and hope that it doesn’t ruin the entire affair.