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[Video] French short film on gender by BlickFen
This is in the short film format so it's about ten minutes long, and it's really worth a watch. TRIGGER WARNING for sexual violence, and also fairly NSFW. I'd love to get some discussion on it going in the comments.
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Wow, this is a very powerful film! It took me a couple minutes into the film, when the main character questions his friend about wearing a balaclava, to realize what was going on. I'm surprised I've never heard the term masculinist before... Or that I was even surprised to see women going around topless in public.
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It's actually really well done, isn't it? It's quite damning of modern societal roles, as it absolutely should be. Equality is not a reality and it's a shame that people delude themselves into thinking so.
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I watched the whole movie. And to be honest I don't know what to think. Yes, rapes happen even to guys. But aside from that, how is that equality not a reality? I am afraid that I don't understand.
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The movie has less to do with the fact of the assault that occurs within it than the behavior patterns associated and accepted across the gender binary. The male character is disrespected and degraded by the women around him because the gender roles that are presented in the film are reversed. It is an attempt to showcase the unacceptable treatment of women by men.
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Oh! So it is a movie about feminism... except they reversed the genders in the movie!
Unfortunately, I think that women too can be degrading to men, sometimes. It swings both ways and I find that unnaceptable.-
It's true that women can degrade men, but the instances of it are far outweighed by how often men do it to women. It doesn't make it okay, but men are far more notorious for treating women like a piece of meat than the other way around.
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It might depend on the country, province or state, I think. :)
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I would love to see evidence to support that claim.
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"but men are far more notorious for treating women like a piece of meat than the other way around." As I would love to see evidence to support that claim. :)
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Just browse through this site for a while: http://www.everydaysexism.com/
Stats and Facts: http://ukfeminista.org.uk/take-action/generation-f/statistics/
http://www.statisticbrain.com/rape-statistics/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/top-10-unfair-countries-women-yemen-pakistan-519682
http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/24/4/319.short
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/50-facts-rape_b_2019338.html
Other: http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/14/man-sets-up-fake-online-dating-profile-pretending-to-be-a-woman-but-quits-two-hours-later-due-to-harassment-and-hostility-4262185/I'm not saying that men aren't objectified or sexually assaulted, but the sheer number of women who are harassed, abused, assaulted, molested, degraded, raped by men specifically is far more staggering. It's even safe to say that the statistics of violence against women aren't totally accurate because a huge number of those crimes are never even reported. Some places are better than others; some are significantly worse. However you cannot deny it is a WORLDWIDE problem and not simply limited to certain areas of the world.
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Sigh. first of all, I didn't claim. Second, as you stated some crimes aren't even reported. Which might change the statistics, again. I never denied. In fact, I said it was still unnaceptable. Also:"Some places are better than others; some are significantly worse." Exactly what I said. Except instead of 'are' I said 'might'. But whatever.
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Hmmm. True there are men who're macho, assholes, who have no respect for women, or more.
The opposite exists also, but it ain't like in the movie - I understood that the movie is there for women to tell men: "And if YOU were in the case?"
But women are much more subtle, not blatant like that. It's more manipulation, using charms and psychology. I've heard of case, and it's as destructive. The way is different, the result is very close. -
I like how the point was missed by every poster before me. It is a very powerful film, reversed gender roles where women are in charge of everything, men are sexualized, rape vitims are blamed for wearing clothing they like. It is a worldwide phenomenon that women can't walk/jog/be people without some asshole screaming nonsense at them. It is a film to reflect why women are afraid of going on with their lives because anything that comes out of their mouth can backfire right back at them. Its a movie to show that this is pretty much what happens in 80% of rape scenarios. Regardless of gender (this movie is specifically meant to be the focus on what women face) It doesn't rule out that male rape happens, but it isn't the topic of this specific film. But its always funny to see the butthurt kid jump and scream "MEN CAN BE RAPED TOO."
Alas, thank you for posting this, I've started to share it with friends and family, because when you live in a macho-driven country like I do, where rape is totally normal and deemed as "she/he deserved it" for whatever excuse its something that needs to be seen.
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I was surprised at how badly the point was missed by some people here and elsewhere. I saw this video posted on Facebook as well and someone had the audacity to comment that they "didn't know being naked was a feminist right."
The police reporting scene was especially powerful because I've read first-hand accounts where the (often male) officers is just as apathetic about the situation, are totally cold and insensitive to the victim, or they try to place blame on the victim somehow.
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I think these role-reversal films can be interesting -- there was a similar one that ran around the internet last year, which placed straight people in the social position of gay people and the way their relationships are treated by society. On the other hand, as a couple of comments here (and probably more on Youtube) demonstrate, it's super easy to miss the point if you don't know what you're looking for, if you haven't experienced it firsthand.
People who harass others on the street don't think of themselves as being hateful and aggressive, I imagine; people who react violently to being told off for such behavior don't think of themselves as particularly volatile (or if they do, they see their rage-fueled intimidation tactics as a positive, gender-affirming quality, "macho"). The fact that this shit is so normalized is what's really insidious.
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Ah, that was very interesting. Depressingly so.
I typically think I have a pretty high awareness of how misogynistic our culture is and whatnot, but little things like him unbuttoning his shirt while riding the bike? I don't know how it's the first time I thought about women wearing low cut things or whatever and it having nothing to do with sex and entirely to do with feeling free/empowered.-
That actually really stood out to me too when I first watched the film. I've watched it several more times since and it's really very nuanced, which is great. I'm glad you got something out of it even if it was depressing.
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Gave me chills.
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