travis.brown

After watching the trailer for “The Invention of Lying” I came to a very scary conclusion: what is essentially rape was shown over and over again to promote this movie. Y

es, I realize that the movie is a comedy and I should stop being such a femi-nazi and everyone should just laugh away, but I can’t help but characterize the scene in which Gervais’ character tells a woman to have sex with him or else the world will end as rape. He does not allow her to consent by giving her a false impression that she has sleep with him to save the world. Under these terms the woman thought the lives of everyone she knew were in danger, not to mention her own life was also threatened.

The fact that no one had a problem with this makes me think that most people would not consider this rape, and indeed that this was just “the art of seduction.” The idea that most people would never consider something like this rape is shocking to me. I know life is not a morality contest but making someone believe their life is in danger to sleep with them is rape (to me). Now let me say that I have not seen the movie, but this scene is in the trailer (this post is late, the movie is pretty much done having any buzz) and you can infer what will happen pretty easliy. I think it ...