Same. I’m so over it. Nobody seems to know why there’s so much of it, though.

“Knowingly and voluntarily” blah blah blah. Cut the sex positive rhetoric. We don’t let people “knowingly and voluntarily” sell or rent any other organs or biological processes. You want to sell your kidney? Well you can’t. Because you don’t have the right to sell yourself.

Before I retreated to the countryside for a simpler and rape-scene-free life, I worked as a professional actor here in Canada. I would have loved a respectful rape scene choreographer on site for the majority of my work. It was a somewhat unspoken rule that you wouldn’t be taken seriously as an actress in the industry…

“We don’t need to see the act. Have it happen off screen”

I don’t watch Game of Thrones and other shows because of the rape scenes. I just can’t watch rape.

But if it were about portraying rape realistically, wouldn’t there be more non-white, older, non-cis-female, non-societally-sanctioned-beautiful characters being raped on screen? I feel like the fact that it’s almost always a young beautiful white woman so that we can sympathize with how ~tragic~ it is to see her…

Right? I always roll my eyes at the ‘realism’ thing.... “Making sure to include enough rape” is exactly the crux of it, let’s face it! If you made a properly realistic movie without rape, nobody would demand that you put more rape into it just to be more realistic.

God’s work you’re doing!! Pointing it out means that some people will never be able to watch it with a clear conscience again, without noticing it. And after your husband has noticed it in this movie, he’ll probably take that with him into all his other favorite movies, and new movies to come, and maybe he’ll mention…

“Gee, rape is really a horrible thing that just happens in reality! So let’s show it again, and again, and again! And then again, with a few more closeups of her tits! And can we get another shot from that angle where we can see her ass more? And make the lighting more flattering!”

I know it’s reality. I don’t want it to be entertainment.

Ever wonder if Game of Thrones is so popular because of the rape and not despite it? What other popular show has this much rape?

No, not once a year. How about never. It’s become a trope, and that’s bullshit.

Game of Rapes gleeful use of rape made me further hate that already shitty ass boring fantasy soap opera. The producers adore watching women getting raped. Throwing in rape scenes as often as possible, even completely creating them when they didn’t exist in the books, and turning consensual sex scenes into rape…

as someone who works in the rape crisis field, I have major concerns. I love that there is someone out there caring about this. But, i think it could be taken a step further and there could be rape crisis advocates on set to help anyone who HAS to be in the room during the scene (sound people, lighting people, camera…

Thandie Newton, in the article, said that the assault scene in Crash was “really sketchily laid out” in the script and the director basically sprung the details on her the day they shot it. If I were her, or her scene partner, I would be beyond livid.

I know of one occasion (from a friend of a friend so I’m not going to say which movie in case it was someone trying to act like they had more information than they really did) where the rape scene was in the script, but much less detailed than what was filmed.

Why are rape scenes increasingly prevalent? Who is behind this? Why do writers and directors feel we need to see it so much? Who gets off on it?

Wow, so part of me is super happy to know that someone is there to look out for the actors in these scenes,but I am super bummed that rape is used in film often enough for it to be necessary.

Maybe we could just have less rape in our tv and movies?

I saw Straw Dogs in the theatre because I thought Alexander Skarsgard was hot.