"I consider myself a bona fide feminist but I also think that some people read way too much into things and give men motives they don't necessarily have. Men are more guilty of genuine cluelessness than nefarious misogynistic intent."
I don't care if it's a conspiracy or not. Being clueless isn't an excuse for sexism or racism or any other ism, especially since white men still overwhelmingly fill positions of power in the entertainment industry. Women (and racial and sexual minorities) deserve to see their realities reflected on their television screen just as much as the people in power do. What we see on screen can reinforce the status quo or it can challenge it. I really can't speak to the GoT controversy and so I shouldn't have raised it at all. Sticking to "Small Potatoes," the attitude that gets reinforced here is that serial rape is a fit subject for making jokes, so it's not a big deal then. Am I right? In a thread further down, I was told we need to "lighten up" about it because this episode is supposed to be funny. That's the problem. Rape isn't funny. It's just not.
Vince Gilligan is such a big effing deal now because of the success of "Breaking Bad." Why should I lighten up on him? If anything, he should be held to a higher standard. He pulls the same shit in one of my all time favorite episodes, "Bad Blood," in that scene at the end where the sheriff puts chloral hydrate into Scully's coffee. In order to watch it, I have to tell myself that if she was raped, she would have reported it, but I don't really know for sure because it's all left deliberately ambiguous. But here's the last thing Scully says: "Anyway, I was drugged." Obviously, to Mr. Gilligan, being drugged and possibly raped is fine to make jokes about. What else can I infer?
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I don't care if it's a conspiracy or not. Being clueless isn't an excuse for sexism or racism or any other ism, especially since white men still overwhelmingly fill positions of power in the entertainment industry. Women (and racial and sexual minorities) deserve to see their realities reflected on their television screen just as much as the people in power do. What we see on screen can reinforce the status quo or it can challenge it. I really can't speak to the GoT controversy and so I shouldn't have raised it at all. Sticking to "Small Potatoes," the attitude that gets reinforced here is that serial rape is a fit subject for making jokes, so it's not a big deal then. Am I right? In a thread further down, I was told we need to "lighten up" about it because this episode is supposed to be funny. That's the problem. Rape isn't funny. It's just not.
Vince Gilligan is such a big effing deal now because of the success of "Breaking Bad." Why should I lighten up on him? If anything, he should be held to a higher standard. He pulls the same shit in one of my all time favorite episodes, "Bad Blood," in that scene at the end where the sheriff puts chloral hydrate into Scully's coffee. In order to watch it, I have to tell myself that if she was raped, she would have reported it, but I don't really know for sure because it's all left deliberately ambiguous. But here's the last thing Scully says: "Anyway, I was drugged." Obviously, to Mr. Gilligan, being drugged and possibly raped is fine to make jokes about. What else can I infer?