Pledging My Love - and Justice - SPOILERS for Hellcats 1x10

[fan_elune]

I have just realised that I had started to take Hellcats far too seriously. Hellcats is supposed to be my fun, mindless hour of tv, complete with Gale Harold occasional goodness and, given last week's episode, surprise David Hewlett goodness.

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[greenie_breizh]

I don't have time to get into it right this second, but it's actually EXACTLY like blaming a girl who's just been sexually assaulted for the assault because she should know better than to wear a mini-skirt / get drunk at a frat party. It puts the responsibility (and blame) onto girls for being sexual, without ever questioning the actual root of the problem (the assaulter or the person who sends pictures). That makes me so mad. Argh.

[fan_elune]

THANK YOU. Seriously. I was just. ARGH.

[greenie_breizh]

I've also been trying to articulate in my head why it's problematic to privilege outing over pic-sharing as a offense, but I haven't had time to sit down and think about it really. I think it has to do with the profound heterosexism that it reveals - first, saying that outing is the worst validates society's homophobia in a way; second, it tends to inflate how terrible outing can be (you look like an ally for thinking about the gay person's well-being but really you participate in keeping non-heteros invisible in the public sphere); third, it fails to recognize just how awful and problematic sharing naked pictures is - and here we go back to the fact that there's a 'blame the victim' mentaliy, women as sexual agents bring this shit onto themselves, etc. Basically the more I think about it, the more it's an uber-fail: their "friendliness" to gay issues is seeped in heterosexist attitudes, and their awful attitude to the girl is pretty plain sex-negative sexism. Ugh.

[fan_elune]

Those are pretty much my thoughts about it, yeah. Except you say it all better than I do. ;)