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By Renée • 12 years ago

The Adjustment Bureau: sexism, racism and terrible writing

Reblogged from http://pricklypants.com with permission.

This movie was such an incredible disappointment. We’re off to a bad start, I know. Maybe I shouldn’t have had such high hopes for The Adjustment Bureau, but I couldn’t help it! Matt Damon plays a young and charismatic politician who accidentally stumbles on the world behind the curtain where he finds out that he and everyone else have no free will, but are merely pawns controlled by The Chairman and the workers at The Adjustment Bureau. It’s like The Matrix meets Stranger Than Fiction meets The Truman Show!

Doesn’t that sound totally awesome? Unfortunately the film falls victim to tired tropes and heaps of sexism and racism. Where do I even begin? First, it fails the Bechdel Test by a LONG shot. If you’re unfamiliar with the Bechdel Test, all a film needs to pass is at least two female characters with names who talk to each other about something other than a man (watch this video about the Bechdel Test, it’s shocking how many movies fail).

By Renée • 12 years ago

Why being vocal about your awesome, consensual rough sex is fighting sexual assault

Reblogged from http://pricklypants.com

Over the last 5 weeks I’ve been training to become a support worker for the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa. I still have a while to go, but it has definitely forced me to think about a lot of things differently than I have in the past.

Lately we have been discussing the medical and legal procedures that follow a sexual assault. The sad (and frankly, enraging) truth is that even if a woman goes straight to the hospital after her assault and her evidence kit shows bruising, cuts, scrapes, or internal tearing, cases will usually boil down to a battle over consent. It’s he said versus she said, and those cuts and bruises could ...

Reblogged from http://pricklypants.com

Over the last 5 weeks I’ve been training to become a support worker for the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa. I still have a while to go, but it has definitely ...