ANY depictions of women experiencing violence a red flag? Absurd. I’ve seen many people like this who state they are fighting for “equality”. However, male vs female violence on film has always been lopsided 99 to 1. Yet, I have never heard that brought up in the ‘equality in film’ debate (because it doesn’t matter to men that it is lopsided. There are no men saying we need less violence against men in movies).
Violence shown toward women on film is almost always by a villain or someone with highly questionable moral fiber. Almost every single instance of women being violated on film (unless a pure evil, sadistic female villain) is depicted and felt as if it is one of the worst things that can be done. In this way, violence shown against women is presented as one of the highest immoralities, and is, therefore, a moral lesson to the audience to NOT do this. This is not always the case with men on film, who are highly disposable. If she doesn’t see this, she does not have any empathy for men.
Exactly right. You’re supposed to feel uncomfortable when villains abuse women, children, and the innocent. Sure, there is going to be the rare person without empathy who watches a movie and cannot feel that, but that is a fraction of a percent.
Your generation is not entirely to blame. The previous generation has programmed you to believe any discomfort is bad. It’s not. Like the old gym saying, “no pain, no gain”, discomfort is not always bad. You have to fall many times before you walk, you have to get some scrapes to ride a bike well, etc. If you are treated like a child your whole life, you will be mentally weak and never fully be an adult (and never fully self-actualize).
People like this complain because there is a profitable victim culture right now preying upon the guilt of good people. Unfortunately, we are institutionalizing a lot of bad ideas right now that risks sacrificing everyone at the altar of “equality”. In media, there are gatekeepers that are putting barriers to entry for those that do not tow the “equality” line. This incentivizes young writers and filmmakers to write politically driven material instead of just focusing on writing good stories. Hard to say how far it goes before it stops. Hopefully, we don’t end up in a dystopian satire like Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”.
This is why I buy physical copies of media. Of course, if you put enough people like her in charge, there will someday be a gestapo going from house to house lifting floorboards to try and find copies of beloved movies and sending people to the reeducation gulag for possessing them.
