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So I won't be going to see Watchmen.
Mar. 13th, 2009 06:36 pmBecause the screenwriter is a douchebag.
All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know...
You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.
And yet... You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.
Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally. - Screenwriter David Hayter's Open Letter to the fans.
HONESTLY?
You did NOT just fucking say that.
You did NOT just compare watching a movie to RAPE.
You did NOT just say that people who don't like it (and by extension, RAPE) simply "have issues".
You did NOT just imply that RAPE is, by and large, just really rough, raw sex.
And you did NOT just say that going BACK "just like Sally" is a GOOD THING.
You did NOT.
Wait.
Oh yes you DID.
There are reasons why victims go back to rapists and abusive situations. Reasons include: lack of perfect agency (due to the power imbalances that render them unable to make good decisions anymore), lack of options, lack of self-esteem, lack of support beyond the situation, the utter destruction of one's own self-worth, and BECAUSE IF WE LEAVE WE ARE LIKELY TO GET HUNTED DOWN FOR FURTHER ABUSE AND POSSIBLY KILLED.
It's certainly NOT for the "rough" and "beautiful" and "thoughtful" and "hateful" and "bleak" and "hilarious" sex.
Douchebag. You and the fucking pervasive, ever-surrounding RAPE culture and your fucking male privilege which will pretty much guarantee that you are significantly at less risk to be RAPED so can make RAPE jokes with impunity like it's a fucking joke.
Fuck. You.
All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know...
You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.
And yet... You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.
Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally. - Screenwriter David Hayter's Open Letter to the fans.
HONESTLY?
You did NOT just fucking say that.
You did NOT just compare watching a movie to RAPE.
You did NOT just say that people who don't like it (and by extension, RAPE) simply "have issues".
You did NOT just imply that RAPE is, by and large, just really rough, raw sex.
And you did NOT just say that going BACK "just like Sally" is a GOOD THING.
You did NOT.
Wait.
Oh yes you DID.
There are reasons why victims go back to rapists and abusive situations. Reasons include: lack of perfect agency (due to the power imbalances that render them unable to make good decisions anymore), lack of options, lack of self-esteem, lack of support beyond the situation, the utter destruction of one's own self-worth, and BECAUSE IF WE LEAVE WE ARE LIKELY TO GET HUNTED DOWN FOR FURTHER ABUSE AND POSSIBLY KILLED.
It's certainly NOT for the "rough" and "beautiful" and "thoughtful" and "hateful" and "bleak" and "hilarious" sex.
Douchebag. You and the fucking pervasive, ever-surrounding RAPE culture and your fucking male privilege which will pretty much guarantee that you are significantly at less risk to be RAPED so can make RAPE jokes with impunity like it's a fucking joke.
Fuck. You.