I had high hopes for that movie. Thinking that something original was going to take place. But I left it going, "...I think I'm offended." It was like something out of the Victorian era.
Beck-yyyy! Really. Clearly what a sexually assaulted woman needs to deal with her trauma is being chained up and sexually assaulted, again! In the name of GAWD!
First of all: Blaming a sexually abused (she was, apparently, sexually abused in childhood, according to some of the reviews I've read) for the abuse she takes from men as an adult. Y'know, SHE needs to be cured of being a "nymphomaniac" (there's another way to say this: "She needs to be punished for being a slut") rather than examining the behavior of the men toward her at all.
Second: Trying to cure her of PTSD caused by childhood abuse and humiliation is by... subjecting her to more abuse and humiliation! Who knew?
Third: Dressing her heavily in the symbols of slavery in America, in order to justify the misogyny by making it, symbolically, about backlash against slavery.... by this, I mean, turning the gender discrimination people against the race discrimination people. Bad form, man.
Becky, sexually adventurous women are bad. Surely you know this, right? :p
And because it's black people, in the movie at least -- the writer/director and producers all all white -- who manipulate the symbols of slavery it can't be offensive to black people, right? How could you find THAT offensive. You're making it sound like this movie is both sexist and racist! :p
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Second: Trying to cure her of PTSD caused by childhood abuse and humiliation is by... subjecting her to more abuse and humiliation! Who knew?
Third: Dressing her heavily in the symbols of slavery in America, in order to justify the misogyny by making it, symbolically, about backlash against slavery.... by this, I mean, turning the gender discrimination people against the race discrimination people. Bad form, man.
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And because it's black people, in the movie at least -- the writer/director and producers all all white -- who manipulate the symbols of slavery it can't be offensive to black people, right? How could you find THAT offensive. You're making it sound like this movie is both sexist and racist! :p
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