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Can't Stand it No More
Jul. 15th, 2007 09:18 pmI just read Dustin Rowles review of Captivity at Pajiba.com. I have also read Joss Whedon's similarly inspired rant about violence against women that has received such support.
I feel that both this rant and Joss Whedon's have a sexist logic underlying them. Others have pointed out that objecting to the films because the torture object was a sexy young woman is sexist. I agree. The notion that women should receive special treatment or respect that men do not, presupposes an inequality between men and women. Objections should be on humanist grounds.
People have rebutted by saying that only men (bad, wrong men instructed by twisted, woman-hating culture) like torture porn and THAT is why these films are about men hating women.
In my experience this is demonstrably false.
If people will venture to read fan fiction and erotica written by women, it will not take them long to discover that lots and lots of women like to fantasize about attractive young people, usually men, tortured in a sexual way, often with the victim then having sex with their captor or presented as getting off on the torture.
I would love to see a day when women have the opportunity and daring to make expensive movies about their "sick depraved" sexual fantasies instead of only being able to express themselves in the anonymity and low cost venue of the internet.
I feel that both this rant and Joss Whedon's have a sexist logic underlying them. Others have pointed out that objecting to the films because the torture object was a sexy young woman is sexist. I agree. The notion that women should receive special treatment or respect that men do not, presupposes an inequality between men and women. Objections should be on humanist grounds.
People have rebutted by saying that only men (bad, wrong men instructed by twisted, woman-hating culture) like torture porn and THAT is why these films are about men hating women.
In my experience this is demonstrably false.
If people will venture to read fan fiction and erotica written by women, it will not take them long to discover that lots and lots of women like to fantasize about attractive young people, usually men, tortured in a sexual way, often with the victim then having sex with their captor or presented as getting off on the torture.
I would love to see a day when women have the opportunity and daring to make expensive movies about their "sick depraved" sexual fantasies instead of only being able to express themselves in the anonymity and low cost venue of the internet.
