About sexuall abuse in pop-culture

[oakfarm]

Or not just in pop-culture, also in the musical where I happen to be a part of the writing team. Yep, you might remember I somehow am involved in writing for a musical that will be performed by pupils in a musical academy. To go straight to the point, they added a rape to the musical. I’m not saying it is bad of them to add it. Nor am I saying that this is flattering to me, but spontaneously I don’t like that. One reason I do not like that is simply that I don’t want to see that. I have become more wimpish over the years. One swedish movie I thought was good when it came was The hunters (1996), now I can’t watch it because of the rape scen. That movie reminds me of American film Wind river (2017). Both are about men - white men, I guess that gets relevant -, isolated in the wilderness, that do horrible things. Exept in The hunters the rape is in the perifieri of the plot, in Wind river it’s in the center. Then it should be said that in the first movie the victim was Filipino and in the second Native American. But that’s outside this entry. To be honest, another reason I might not like it simply is because I’m a guy and don’t want to see another work where men are evil. In the both mentioned movies “the good guy” is a man, so there’s balance. Since I haven't read the manus to the musical, I can’t know if they have a similar balance in it. A third reason, that’s related to the first, at the same time I see it as less flattering to me, is simply “ignorance is a bliss”. I know it’s different for men, it still isn’t exactly easy to read time and time again how horrible it is to be a woman.Not sure I get my message through. Not sure what my message is. Spontaneously I don't like that turn of the script, doesn't mean I shouldn't been written. And I'm not protesting Unrelated, it suddenly seems more difficult to make "cuts"?