This is the third time my computer crashes while trying to edit that post. Grrrr.
I didn't say it was an excuse, just that it isn't a deliberate attempt to belittle women. And if people got what they deserved, women and otherwise, I'd be spotting the Pearly Gates from my living room window. The world of men is a world of men. It sucks in many ways and is unfair in many ways but getting all riled up about the subtext of a TV episode honestly isn't big on my list of priorities. Yeah they're using rape as a plot device, just as people use racism and murder as a plot device. These things are dramatic life points, so writers are going to use them as a source of inspiration and use them in comedy too. In the X-Files, people of all genders die a lot. Rape is a horrible thing but for me it is no worse than torture or murder. I suspend my outrage to watch TV shows, the death of people on it doesn't really affect me. Neither does this. It is a comedy. I refuse to go down the "oh but they're making fun of rape" path because I believe it is utterly preposterous. IMO this is one instance when you should not make a gender issue of a comedy episode. Besides Bergson said that laughter is cruelty. A French stand up comedian Coluche, once said: "you can make fun of everything, just not with everybody." I guess we French hold nothing sacred, any subject is fair game, which for Anglo-Saxons makes us insensitive bastards but there you go. This "You can't make fun of that" PC attitude has always rubbed me the wrong way.
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Date: 2014-06-27 08:01 pm (UTC)I didn't say it was an excuse, just that it isn't a deliberate attempt to belittle women. And if people got what they deserved, women and otherwise, I'd be spotting the Pearly Gates from my living room window. The world of men is a world of men. It sucks in many ways and is unfair in many ways but getting all riled up about the subtext of a TV episode honestly isn't big on my list of priorities. Yeah they're using rape as a plot device, just as people use racism and murder as a plot device. These things are dramatic life points, so writers are going to use them as a source of inspiration and use them in comedy too. In the X-Files, people of all genders die a lot. Rape is a horrible thing but for me it is no worse than torture or murder. I suspend my outrage to watch TV shows, the death of people on it doesn't really affect me. Neither does this. It is a comedy. I refuse to go down the "oh but they're making fun of rape" path because I believe it is utterly preposterous. IMO this is one instance when you should not make a gender issue of a comedy episode. Besides Bergson said that laughter is cruelty. A French stand up comedian Coluche, once said: "you can make fun of everything, just not with everybody." I guess we French hold nothing sacred, any subject is fair game, which for Anglo-Saxons makes us insensitive bastards but there you go. This "You can't make fun of that" PC attitude has always rubbed me the wrong way.