Ten times pop culture romanticised sexual harassment - BBC Three

fengpi · 2018-12-31T23:00:46+00:00

After meeting Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore (yeah, don’t even get us started on the name),

Is there something wrong with an empowered woman who is proud of her sexuality in the way that Ms. Galore, fearless badass lady-pilot, does? We're slut-shaming now, are we? Seriously, as Bond Girls go, she wasn't exactly a fainty little dandelion.

She fights him off, but eventually succumbs to his advances, resulting in one of the most uncomfortable sex scenes on film.

What's more? By the end of the movie, this helpless victim seems completely smitten by her rapist! She's trapped with him under a parachute, completely willingly getting raped again!. That kind of thing happens all the time in our Reip Koolchur, in which women routinely fall in love with their rapists, marry them and grow old with them without ever realizing that they've been raped perhaps hundreds of times.

Ohhh, I think I see the problem: Sexual contact in movies is only disempowering when it doesn't involve feminist-approved foreplay, in the form of repeated, swift kicks to the balls.

Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard tells Sean Young’s Rachael that she’s an android - not a human.

SHE IS A REPLICANT. A CLONE. THERE ARE NO "ANDROIDS" IN THAT FILM!! And if she was an "android", he'd be interacting with a machine, and you're accusing him of attacking a machine, yes Ms. Genius? Akin to attacking a blender or a vacuum cleaner or a computer-controlled lathe.

Jesus Christ. If you're gonna write about films, you should ideally know something about goddamned films. Maybe even see a few black and white ones from the Golden Age of Hollywood, which was a hoary old dinosaur culture in which women were surely getting raped on screen left and right despite the Motion Picture Code which this chick clearly doesn't know anything about.

HeForeverBleeds · 2018-12-31T23:03:04+00:00

Besides that this article is all overly sensitive, Alt-J’s Breezeblocks definitely does not belong on this list. It's not supposed to be "romantic"; it's meant to be creepy. The upbeat melody deliberately contrasts with the disturbing lyrics (about a man obsessed with a woman) and the music video (about a woman obsessed with a man to the point where she kidnaps his wife, locks her away, then tries to kill him. Of course the author skips over the part about the abusive woman). Clearly this author knows nothing about the band nor their intentions

andejoh · 2019-01-01T06:10:35+00:00

Interesting they left out Adele's Hello. Doesn't Morgan Le Fey disguise as Guinevere to rape Arthur in one of the many King Arthur movies / shows? I seem to recall a scene in either She's the Man or Just One of the Guys where the female protagonist gets to view all her team mates as they come out of the shower. It could have been both. Heck Nefertiri was pretty adamant about getting with Moses in The Ten Commandments.

Granted, there are literally 100s if not 1,000s of examples. I find it irritating that only instances of male creepy behavior is listed.

Regs2 · 2019-01-01T00:19:00+00:00

I've always thought 'Every breath you take' by The Police was creepy as fuck.

Title	Ten times pop culture romanticised sexual harassment - BBC Three
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Date	December 31, 2018 10:06 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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