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November 10, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Reneta Scian
Something that this post made me think of is the way in which our culture trivializes violence, especially in film. Popped into my head when I thought about current movies and games with violence in them. Not just sexual assault, but murder, torture, et cetera. For a long time this has been getting more and more intense/gory. I don’t understand what kind of enjoyment people can get out of going to see a movie where someone is tortured, assaulted or murdered. Being a person who finds many kinds of realistically depicted violence fairly triggering, and grotesque, I especially feel myself uneasy about it, even enough to get panic attacks.
It’s related to this, because as painful as sexual assault is to the victim, there is still media out there that trivializes it. Some of it even simulates it in video-games, movies, television, et cetera with no sensitivity to the consequences, ignorant of the pain, horror, and suffering of those who’ve experience events like those depicted. It really bothers me that people can see these forms of media as “entertainment”, because I can promise you that I don’t find it the least bit amusing. I am pretty sure I am not the only one. I feel far to often, people underestimate the effect that media has on us. There are hundreds of thousands of ways to entertain, and more than enough ways to do that without trivializing violence.
I guess that is all the more why stuff like this is important. Thanks for the post.
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November 11, 2012 at 8:02 am
The Arbourist
@Reneta
I agree. Having a fairy typical upbringing/social experience I have been sensitized to the violent images in popular media. It’s only after reading about wars and our history did the real implications of what I was being shown come to their true horrible light.
Action and violence do not need to be wedded all the time for entertainment purposes.
Rape culture sure is fantastic, no? :/
It is so very important to hear the voices of people who are the victim or those who get the short end of the stick – we need to be able to identify and empathize with them. It encourages our common humanity – something we all need to work on.
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