The reaction to this episode that you link to, Iain, has offended me far more than the episode could have.
What this episode's critics seem to be suggesting is that we should pretend that male on female rape does not happen anymore just because it's an old plot device.
Women being victims might be a TV stereotype, but sometimes they *are*.
One particular person claims that a male Cylon should have suffered the same treatment. Why ? To balance things out, to pretend that two wrongs do indeed make a right ? Is that realistic ? Would male interrogators even want to do that to a man ? The answer is no, they wouldn't.
Too many people these days want TV to pretend that we live in a happy little world where nothing bad *ever* happens to women, where women will always automatically do everything right and never make a single mistake, where they'll automatically be the very best at whatever they choose to do.
What you and I, Iain, as men, should be more offended by is the equally stereotypical portrayal of men as rapists and monsters. Nobody ever complains about that.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zvi and
no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 05:16 am (UTC)What this episode's critics seem to be suggesting is that we should pretend that male on female rape does not happen anymore just because it's an old plot device.
Women being victims might be a TV stereotype, but sometimes they *are*.
One particular person claims that a male Cylon should have suffered the same treatment. Why ? To balance things out, to pretend that two wrongs do indeed make a right ? Is that realistic ? Would male interrogators even want to do that to a man ? The answer is no, they wouldn't.
Too many people these days want TV to pretend that we live in a happy little world where nothing bad *ever* happens to women, where women will always automatically do everything right and never make a single mistake, where they'll automatically be the very best at whatever they choose to do.
What you and I, Iain, as men, should be more offended by is the equally stereotypical portrayal of men as rapists and monsters. Nobody ever complains about that.