Take It Like a Man?
Mar. 26th, 2018 03:02 pm(Content warning: I, uh, talk about violence in this. Rather a lot. Not in gory detail, but if the discussion of traumatic and/or sexual violence bothers you, you may not want to read onward.)
My husband and I recently went to see Tomb Raider (short form: it's ridiculous, but if it weren't ridiculous it would be doing it wrong, and it has more to enjoy in the first ten minutes than I remember in the entirety of the Angelina Jolie version), and it's freshened up some thoughts that have been percolating in my mind for a while now about violence and gender in media.
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My husband and I recently went to see Tomb Raider (short form: it's ridiculous, but if it weren't ridiculous it would be doing it wrong, and it has more to enjoy in the first ten minutes than I remember in the entirety of the Angelina Jolie version), and it's freshened up some thoughts that have been percolating in my mind for a while now about violence and gender in media.
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