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They say you can't hear images. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 0 points 8 hours ago* (2 children)

I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? "Media shapes culture shapes media" is an argument, but "it's realistic" falls a bit flat as a reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    It's about how you show it. If it's clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it's fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that's certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

    I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it's 'realistic' is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.

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