You are aware that men are fully functional human beings, aren’t you? We do in fact bleed when cut and we can be severly impacted by traumatizing events, I can assure you.

Rape is both too close to home and too realistic. I would have the same visceral horror to a male character being raped; but that almost never happens in cinema, because it would be too humiliating. However, fictional women are raped all the time as a cheap shock. Female rape in movies has the added horror of being…

Your condescending “reading comprehension” comments aren’t relevant when you don’t make sense.

Or we could have a horror movie specially for frat boys. Where That Dumb Slut’s story is accepted and believed even though she’d been drinking. She is treated with respect and compassion by law enforcement, the judicial system and the media. He is treated as if he’d done something awful. No one cares about his…

Your strawman

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.

And if rape is just like any other kind of violence, how come more male rape isn’t shown? How come if it is shown, the movie’s rating is automatically higher? Rape is always on the table for female characters (under 35, thin, attractive, that is) in a way that it is not for male characters.

I also just wanted to say that if Disney movies are going to be rated PG from now on, then Disney princesses need to start swearing. Frozen would be much better with Elsa singing “This Shitty Kingdom Is Filled With Assholes; I’m So Outta Here!”

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It’s salvageable, let’s work in a male protagonist who saves the rag-tag band of women, from other men... and from themselves, by teaching them to love again.

If this included a ragtag group of survivor vigilantes taking out the... problems: 10/10 would watch

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.

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.

Here’s a more interesting plot for a horror movie; a nation beset with a generation of judges who give rapists a slap on the wrist because ‘boys will be boys’. Yeah. Complete disregard for the law as written. We could even have the cops treat rape victims like perpetrators and ask them what they could have done to…

Welcome to America, where showing a woman getting punched in the face will earn you a PG rating but having showing her having consensual sex will earn you a hard R.

I'll need to let my friend who was forcibly penetrated with a beer bottle by an angry boyfriend that she was not, in fact, raped. How relieved she'll be.

And OF COURSE a quick web search proves that there were no women involved in producing, directing or writing. Go Figure.

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

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.