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In 2016 The Wrap published a piece by Joe Otterson titled “Game of Thrones Accused Of Promoting Rape Culture and ‘Torture Pornography’ (https://www.thewrap.com/game-of-thrones-accused-of-promoting-rape-culture-torture-pornography/). He quotes The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, “This cocktail of pornography and twisted plot lines must be denounced as socially irresponsible, especially in an age when American society is struggling to combat the crises of sexual assault and rape culture.” The message is clear: in fiction men raping women is unambiguously bad, there is no room for any kind of moral discussion or ethical complexity. In 2019 the same publication published Brian Welk’s piece titled ‘How ‘Queen of Hearts’ Director Made a Feminist Film About a Bad Person’. (https://www.thewrap.com/how-queen-of-hearts-director-made-a-feminist-story-about-a-bad-person/) The film is about a middle aged woman called Anne who has an ‘affair’ with her teenage step son, with complexity being added to Anne as a character because her job is, wait for it, a lawyer who defends victims of rape. Welk’s piece begins by quoting the director, May el-Toukhy, stating ‘What can be seen as radical or controversial about that is that we don’t have enough female characters.’ The rape of a teenage boy is not controversial, the problem is that the movie has too many men in it. Welk admits that this ‘may not be the most positive of female narratives’, but this is the limit of recognition of Anne’s vile criminal behaviour, instead we are reminded that Anne is ‘strong, confident and powerful’ and we are told to conclude that ‘her morally corrupt behavior still makes her human.’ According to el-Toukhy, her purpose as director was to encourage the audience to ‘start a moral dialogue with yourself’, yet she appears to remove all moral ambiguity with the comment ‘I believe that she (Anne) is not an evil person. She is a human being. And that is what life is’. The message is clear: in fiction, when women rape male children there is room for a moral discussion and ethical complexity. More shockingly el-Toukhy congratulates herself on producing a feminist testament, claiming she and her cast stand ‘on the shoulders of female filmmakers and feminists before us’ adding that ‘by daring to depict the bad’ in women ‘a new sort of feminism is thriving’. Returning to my original point at the top of this document, this is not anything to do with equality, it is a poisonous form of ‘feminism’ that I find impossible to support, or even comprehend. It is insufficient to call this piss poor thinking. It is repugnant.