she even got shoutouts in songs!

But don’t deny everyone else in the world your insights.

There are some who can write sexual assault well. Respectfully. Focused on the victim’s experience and how it affects her (sometimes him, usually her) and her development, as opposed to using it as a plot device to motivate her father or husband. And (importantly) not sexualizing it. Some can do this. I’m having…

can you imagine a world in which all of us decided to seek vengeance against our assailants full-time, movie style? especially considering many people have been assaulted more than once? we’d all be running around, not getting anything else done, amassing weapons or recruiting plucky best friends or whateverthefuck.…

Nailed it

Worst, of the ones I have seen where men are raped or threatened with rape, you never really see anything graphic like you would for women.

My mom tells me all the time that she honestly is never surprised by all my cares about social justice because I've ALWAYS been that way. I was picked on a lot as a kid but it was always because I stood up for other kids and hung out with whoever I wanted to. Not much has changed, TBH.

Like Where The Boys Are, where a character attempts suicide after being raped—a twofer.

I mean, it’s one thing to be sad when you’re infertile. It’s another to always jump to DEFCON ONE CRAY CRAY MODE and try to rob banks or steal infants or gun down your husband because you can’t have kids.

Not saying at all that people should continue this tired trope, but considering how many I saw reviews and commenters depict the women in Mad Max as pampered models and things like that... I’m pretty sure many are too dim to see interpret the (IMO blatant) visuals in front of them.

Dirty Dancing has a progressive abortion subplot.

Why do you think the Taken movies were so popular? Ugh.

I’ve spoken with friends about something similar with friends in regard to race. It seems that in too many books/movies/tv shows, a shorthand for identifying a character as a bad guy is to have them use racial slurs or be otherwise racist. It’s grating as a POC who might otherwise enjoy these works

Fucking yes. You know what my sexual assault did to my character? Nothing. I drank too much for a bit and occasionally got very drunk and told whichever poor person happened to be nearest to me all about it. I got absolutely hammered the day the statue of limitations expired. And I continued moving on with my life. It…

Have there been any realistic story lines involving abortion? Or just any at all, realism aside?

Well, I’m sick of movies that justify the deaths of random Black people because they give the main character the courage to seek revenge upon her (Brown) assailants, but she still made “The Brave One” anyway.

see also: she had a miscarriage and was DESTROYED! DESTROYYYYEEED

But to do those things they would need more than 1 female character so I don’t see how that could possibly happen.

Also, audiences can figure out when rape has taken place without graphic depictions. In the latest Mad Max it’s pretty obvious that there was non-consensual sex involved without having to see Immortan Joe’s (probably) freaky junk.

Oh dang, you’re right, rape culture is definitely Catriona Balfe’s fault.