Apparently, Maleficent has a rape scene

arios1570 · 2014-06-06T21:09:37+00:00

Comedy gold from the comments section:

apparently cutting off your wings is rape. I guess Rapunzel was raped too, when she had her hair cut off, and Cinderella was raped when she lost her shoe, and probably The Sword In the Stone is a metaphor for rape too. You can vizualize it anywhere as long as you have a good imagination! Bippity Boppity Boo!!

ChickenMcVincent · 2014-06-06T20:46:39+00:00

I havent seen this film yet, but it appears that the author is comparing a scene in which the title character has her wings cut off by someone she loves with rape. Anyone else feel this is ridiculous? Or am I reading this article incorrectly?

Dolemarq · 2014-06-06T21:39:39+00:00

He rapes her of her ability to fly. What?

redgreenyellowblu · 2014-06-07T00:50:28+00:00

Lots of spoilers!

I saw the movie last night, and I'm going to agree with the article writer that Maleficent is portrayed as--if not raped--being drugged and brutalized by the only significant male character in the movie. The man, who became king by hacking off her wings, is portrayed as the most corrupt and depraved person imaginable. His predecessor was also an unsympathetic character. In fact, the entire kingdom, run by a succession of kings, was portrayed to be motivated by greed and military power, as opposed to the realm of faeries and nature spirits (all faeries were females that I could see) where everything was nice and "everyone trusted each other". I think the article writer recognized the feminist and anti-male themes in the movie.

The mistake is to say that a movie written to portray men poorly somehow shows that we need to "have a conversation" about how all men are rapists.

Not only did the man saw off her wings, but he essentially abandoned his daughter for 16 years without ever visiting. I kept wondering, "Why does he never even TRY to visit her?" Maleficent, though, does keep watch over her. Three lesser faeries also sacifice the "best years of their life" to take care of her. The dad? Never visits once and will not hug her when she finally returns to the castle.

The crow was a sympathetic but passive character, but the crow wasn't really a human. The prince was portrayed in a blandly positive light, but his love was not enough to save the princess. A theme of the movie was that being hurt led to Maleficent believing there no such thing as "true loves kiss". In the end, there was a true love's kiss, but it was not provided by a man.

readoclock · 2014-06-06T23:01:45+00:00

To be fair even a lot of the feminists in the comments are asking wtf the article is talking about.

It is a ridiculous piece of writing and has no credibility...and any sane person would not accept it

hineyman · 2014-06-07T15:32:29+00:00

And yet when this happens to a male child they call it circumcision and it is the society norm. Is this what they mean by "rape culture"?

scsimodem · 2014-06-07T19:41:57+00:00

The phrase 'raped of her wings' doesn't even make grammatical sense. Unlike words, such as 'stripped', which have an obvious implied prepositional phrase, the definition of raped doesn't even leave room for a prepositional phrase. It's like 'murdered.' You weren't 'murdered of your wings' or 'murdered from your parents.' You were freaking murdered! That's really all that's there. I also feel the need to do this:

http://ofmusingsandwonderings.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/you-keep-using-that-word1.jpg

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-06-07T01:15:10+00:00

Even for Huffpo this is an astonishingly stupid article. The writer's daughter had a reasonable response to the movie, perhaps they should have let her, rather than Idiot Mom, write the piece!

paracog · 2014-06-07T03:08:05+00:00

Raperaperape scene from The Knack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKezXv-hkM

RedPresident · 2014-06-07T04:58:28+00:00

Clearly, because we have penises, we don't understand that: Anytime a man does something to or takes something from a woman, it is rape. It is not battery, it is not mayhem, it is not theft, it is rape. AND: If you have been raped, it is OK to be evil and get revenge on babies.

HitchSlap92 · 2014-06-07T16:55:44+00:00

What a joke. I cannot take these people seriously.

belil569 · 2014-06-07T02:23:17+00:00

Apparently they can make up their own definitions of words now. Wish I could do that.

2014-06-07T11:32:58+00:00

Propagandists.

chavelah · 2014-06-06T23:59:40+00:00

That article is shit - but yes, the drugged winged hacking-off is totally rapey (how could it not be?). The movie itself is pretty good. It's interesting that another poster is reviling this movie while praising Frozen - give me a male villian over the neutered accessory men in THAT movie every day. I really, really liked that Maleficent could heal and say " it's over" to Stefan and really mean it. Of course, he had to attack her back and get tossed over the edge of the castle a la Gaston, because this is Disney we're talking about, but the movie isn't anti-male. It's anti-traitor and anti-asshole.

Title	Apparently, Maleficent has a rape scene
Author	ChickenMcVincent
Upvotes	24
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Date	June 6, 2014 8:44 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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