On 31 Mar 2005 16:13:40 -0800, Hyerdahl wrote:

> 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.




thats not justifying it? its certainly excusing it.


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