Dragonfly and Bunny went late night shopping* tonight so we've only had time to watch one ep of something tonight. I gave Dfly the choice of
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Suzan and I feel exactly the same about Thomas (vicious, too few redeeming qualities). Frankly, all he needs are mustachios to twirl, and the Disney Villain image will be complete. Really, he's just too much of a caricature, and not even an enjoyable one (which most Disney villains are).
Yes, well, I don't think Julian Fellowes is too concerned about things like feminism or positive portrayals of gay people. This is the guy who talked about how he wanted to show that Anna was raped even though she was a good girl, not dressed provocatively and "didn't deserve it." (I wanted to find him and beat him to a bloody pulp for that. Well, figuratively. Sort of. I mean, I wanted to, but I never would have. I might have shouted some pretty strong invective at him. *g*)
I don't know this guy at all. Did he mean to infer that some women DO deserve it, or was he meaning that society's perception of women is like that, and he was showing that it can happen to anyone?
Of course he meant the latter--or, well, he seemed to mean, rather, that society thinks that only women who are "asking for it" by dressing provocatively or being promiscuous or other "risky" behavior get raped, and that in reality women who are blameless get raped all the time. My problem with it is his use of words like "deserved" or implying that any woman can be "blamed" for being the victim of a criminal violent act by a man, or as though women who do dress in a revealing way or walk alone at night or any other "risky" behavior are in some way responsible for their own rape, when in fact there is only one person to blame, ever, in the case of rape: the rapist. It was a really unfortunate way of putting it, and just another example of how prevalent rape culture is, that he would use the term "deserve."
Julian Fellowes is the showrunner for Downton Abbey.
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