bluesmama wrote:
> Hyerdahl wrote:
> > bluesmama wrote:
> > > howldog wrote:
> > > > Sandra Bullock to Matt Laurer this morning:
> > > >
> > > > "I needed you to play a guy who was man enough to
let a woman
> beat
> > > him > up".
> > > >
> > > > gag. no more of your movies, ever, Sandra.
> > > >
> > > > Shame on you.
> > >
> > > What a truly disrespectful thing to say.
> >
> > Why?  She was talking about the other male actors in the film she
> just
> > made where she and another actress play FBI folks.  I don't see
where
> > Bullock was inciting violence against men.  Are you also against
> films
> > where male FBI agents end up killing or beating up women criminals,
> or
> > are you only offended when a woman beats up a man in films?
Because
> > most films out there are about male violence on women and other
men.
>
> Not inciting violence, just minimizing the injustice of it. I'm
against
> all sorts of depictions of violence in film. Just because there are a
> lot of depictions of male on female violence in film doesn't make it
> right to minimize female on male violence. It's just _another_ kind
of
> wrong.

I think it is important to consider a few things here.  First, women
didn't sponsor violence against men or even the idea of it until we've
had centuries of violence against women and jokes about such.  The
amount of violence against women is one hundred fold as compared to
violence about men.  In that regard, I see no reason to tell women to
stop.  Sometimes backfires are just what's needed to fight forrest
fires.

>
> > > Another name to add to the list beside Jennifer Lopez.
> >
> > What did she do?  She did provide a film where  a woman could
defend
> > herself against an abusive asshole.
>
> Defend is one thing. And don't start going on about abusive assholes,
I
> know them well enough, thanks. Say what you like, someone beating up
> someone else is just wrong, however you try to justify it.

I'm not justifying it;  I'm saying it's the same thing men do every day
of the week.  I'm suggesting that women start defending themselves up
to and including reasonable, even when deadly, force.



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