Thanks to our friend the
boiling frog, this is no longer shocking it's wank off material. It's the double whammy of sex and violence, with generous helpings of forbidden and risqu้; it's the quadruple whammy of misogyny, affirmed by the powerful conditioning device that is orgasm.
And so, I'm not writing this to make a point about cruelty porn movies if you need to have their evilness explained to you, you're beyond help at the very least beyond the help that
I can provide online.
Chances are also that if you are addicted, you will reject any commentary that endangers your source of orgasms, anyway. In fact I've often noticed that people who object strongly to similar racial dynamics find the same completely acceptable in gender context, as if somebody getting off would justify anything and everything: the panacea of orgasm, ejaculating carte blanche.
Also, that kind of argument is preferably made about a "race" the speaker has little or no contact with anyway, so adopting a generous attitude there implies no adjustment in real world behavior, where giving up misogyny would.
I'm also not going to crossref this with the mainstreaming of BDSM, though of course if you're one of the people who think that patriarchal power-over warmed over is
oh-so-avant-garde-and-transgressive
, I'll still laugh at you. Instead the question that is on my mind right now is, what does that say about modeling?
And I'm not even referring to the artistic challenges, like the
To do something ironically, you still have to do it
conundrum (which apparently also plagues
Dollhouse), or
From a certain point on, satire is impossible
because the subject matter is already at the limit, and you can't crank the knob
up to eleven to exaggerate for effect. I'm wondering about the
ethical implications,
on top of body types, woman-as-ornament, wealth-markers, etc.
Now more than ever.
