The movie "Teeth." Female empowerment or just disgusting?
a lot of women feel the film is “empowering” and inspirational, and had great a great feminist message. And some girls thought that it was funny to see their boyfriends reactions to it and laughed over how he squirmed or about how it was an awkward car ride back from the theater.
Consider the flip side though: How many guys (not including the mentally ill) would cheer the mutilation or rape of a woman in a movie? I would never view a guy mutilating a woman as “empowered” no matter for what reason. And for sexual abuse/mutilation scenes in general, I hate them! They’re something cheap done for shock value. Movies like the Hills Have Eyes could be great movies on their plot without including horrific scenes just to get a reaction out of the audience. And secondly, how would it sound if a guy thought it was funny to freak his girlfriend by taking her to some movie where a woman is mutilated? messed up! But I guess the bottom line is that victimization adds legitimacy to ad vocation of equally aggressive mutilation. I also thought it was narrow minded that every single guy in the film is some creep.
One woman commented on a review of the film by saying:
“ I hate to agree with the men and go against the woman but... this is sick! they are right it is very sexist towards men! but also men do need the tables turned too cos in every horror we see there are girls who are completly weak little SWEAR WORD for brains idiots who are just walking targets. However I also must point out that horrors do also have some strong female characters! So really what I'm trying to say is that yes it's good to "turn the tables" but does it really have to be this extreme? The answer is no!”
Also guys if you’re angry about this remember that even though there is only an occasional lorena bobbit situation in Western world, Female Genital Mutilation (aka “circumcision”) occurs widespread in many cultures, the results are absolutely horrific.
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