Yes, Some Movies Unfortunately Feature Misandry

[ADFSDF1996]

There is always outrage around the world whenever a movie shows what is believed to be "misogyny". However whenever a movie shows misandry, it is always praised. I'm not defending violence against either gender.

The "I Spit On Your Grave" Series

I've never seen any of these disgusting movies but I did read the movie spoilers. Basically it depicts men as "rapists","violent", "scary" and "cruel". In the first movie the protagonist is a female that gets raped and ends up getting her revenge on several men by brutally torturing them.

The second movie is similar and the third one involves the protagonist from the first film going vigilante by kidnapping rapists and torturing them. I'm not defending the rapists but it's disgusting how men are depicted in these movies. Sure enough many women enjoyed these movies, while a lot of men couldn't even watch these movies. There is a movie of the same name that was made in 1976, it features a similar plot. Imagine the outrage if the gender roles were reversed in these movies.

Uninhabited

I've watched this movie because I expected it to be another cliché horror movie but towards to the climax of the movie, there a plot twist were the female protagonist (I'm not sure if she's a protagonist) starts to get distant from her boyfriend. She hears about the story of a girl that got raped, after being aware of this story she turns into a misandrist. The boyfriend calls her out on her thoughts of harming innocent men. This makes her angry as she feels that her feelings are justified.

Teeth

It's about a health condition (not sure if this condition is real) were a woman's vagina has teeth. I haven't seen this movie but I've heard that there are rape scenes but the woman's teeth down there maim the rapists. I'll say it again, I'm not defending the rapists but my problem is with how men are depicted and how this movie advocates violence against men. It depicts all men as rapists.

Hostel

There is only one scene that shows a little bit of misandry and it happens towards the end. The protagonist that is female gets the upper hand on the male antagonist, the male antagonist insults the woman which cause her to get "triggered", she proceeds to cut of his manhood and feed it to the dogs. It's implied that he bled out.

Girls Against Boys

I haven't seen this movie but the title itself is not very comforting. I did read about what happens I this movie; basically, a woman is raped and she eventually gets her revenge on the rapist. The whole film has a negative depiction of men.

Reading comments about these movies, it seems that a lot of women enjoyed these movies because of what happens to the male characters. They even leave comments like "girl power!". The misandrists wouldn't be singing the same tune if the roles were reversed in these movies.

[LadyTerror]

Out of these, I've only seen Teeth but it's the opposite of how you described it. What she has isn't described as a health condition but as a curse and she hates it. Only one of the men actually tried to rape her. One of them was actually a gynecologist and got his fingers chopped of while he was performing a test. She even feels bad for him after it happens.

[Waffles731]

its the rape and revenge genre dude.
and NOBODY is sympathetic in the hostel films its just torture porn

[ADFSDF1996]

I've heard of that genre.

[Waffles731]

Rape and revenge films (aka rape/revenge, rape-revenge) are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s. Rape/revenge movies generally follow the same three-act structure:[citation needed]

Act I: A character is raped/gang raped, tortured, and/or left for dead.
Act II: The character survives and/or rehabilitates themselves.
Act III: The character takes revenge and/or kills their rapist (s).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_and_revenge_film
Its just an exploitation film dude,
Its not Misandrist,
By that logic Mad Max is anti-Australian

[ADFSDF1996]

Still though, why is it always a woman that's the victim?

[Waffles731]

Thats the subgenre of the Rape and Revenge

[Waffles731]

An exploitation film is a film which attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies".[1] Even so, they sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead (1968), set trends and become historically important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_film

[ADFSDF1996]

It's not the content that bothers me, it's the message that it gives. Which is that men aren't victims of rape and that only men rape.

[Waffles731]

There is no message behind it, other than.
Here you go teenagers,
Watch nudity, sexual violence, then later you watch the victim brutally murder their tormentors, its not really even a movie, its just an excuse for a b-movie to throw in a bunch of nudity and low budget gore.
Teenagers throw money, its makes a profit and then the director moves on and directs another explotation film

[ADFSDF1996]

Of course usually there is no intended message but these movies unintentionally appeal to the misandrists. That's why a lot of men walked out of the public showing of "I spit on your grave".

[Waffles731]

Men are actually the intended audience,
Notice the posters for I spit on your grave, notice how in one and three, they purposefully focus on her ass.
And in number two she has her shirt open and you can see she isn't wearing a bra

[Waffles731]

The entire focus of the movie is Nudity and Violence

[ADFSDF1996]

It failed at attracting men, some people consider it "female empowerment".

[Waffles731]

Trust me, it did not fail at attracting men,
The 'men' it tries to attract are the ones tend to be, 17, or 18, kids really

[ADFSDF1996]

I'm sure it did attract them at first but after this film gained notoriety, most of the viewers became women instead. It's confirmed that at least 8 men walked out during the screening of the first film. www.rogerebert.com/.../i-spit-on-your-grave-2010

[Anonymous]

As a horror fan who has seen a lot (and I do mean alot) of violent horror and exploitation films I will say this; rape and revenge films have a simple formula. Woman gets raped and she seeks revenge or someone else seeks the revenge for her. There have been some movies and tv shows even that have men as the victims. I believe one reason for the "typical" formula of a woman victim and male rapist is kind of a "wishful thinking" move. Many women have been raped since the beginning of time and many people have strong feelings about what should happen to rapists, myself included. While men do get raped I believe because it is mainly men who make these movies, they would be uncomfortable making a film about a man being raped. It is shamed. How many guys do you know who have been raped or molested tell people about it? Not many because of fear and shame (same as a woman but men have always been deemed the strong heroic figures) Im a fan of the I Spit On Your Grave series. Teeth was ok and Hostel was crazy. At the end of the day they are just films. Films that play out our fears and like I said above, "wishful thinking" on what happens to bad guys.

[ADFSDF1996]

If a man makes a movie were a man is raped, he will face backlash. People just don't take make victims seriously. There are movies were men are sexually assaulted but they are depicted as dark humor instead.

[ADFSDF1996]

*male victims

[Saoirse_Nua]

There has been a few of those rape revenge movies - There was "Baise Moi" a French movie that seemed to offend everybody, I haven't seen it but I remember the outcry, I am nearly sure it is banned in most places. One of the best rape revenge twists I saw was in one of those "Twilight Zones " or "Outer Limits" TV shows, a man collects his wife from hospital, she is in shock and his emotions are all over the place. Driving home she shouts "It's him, it's him the man who raped me", the man is so angry that he gets a tyre iron goes after man and kills him, He gets back in the cars and starts driving, in turmoil and she goes "It's him, no it's him over there, that guy there , no that other guy across the street, that's the man" (picking out every man she sees)

[RachelBrigs]

I agree some of these are misandrist but how does a movie depicting male rapists qualify as misandrist? Just because it shows the aspects of male rapists with female victims doesn't mean it was made to depict "all" men as you say, as rapists.

The issue here lies in men identifying with male rapists in fiction bc they're male. When in reality you should just think, that's a rapist. He happens to be male. Doesn't mean the director/producer/screen write/viewers/fans think ALL men are rapists bc the film showed a male rapist.

How about all the movies about crime where most of the criminals are men? Does that mean the producers and the fans think all men are criminals? Just check up on your logic.

[ADFSDF1996]

There is something called cliché.

[ADFSDF1996]

There are real life cases were women sexually abuse and rape men but they are never depicted in movies or tv shows. Men aren't immune to sexual abuse and rape.

[RachelBrigs]

That doesn't make movies that DO depict women being raped as misandric.
And besides, these movies aren't made for sympathy for female rape victims, it's just an excuse for bloody revenge, bc these are HORROR movies. And in the movies the women are often sexualized. They're just crappy horror films that actually mock the trauma of rape, they aren't empowering to women or anything like that.

I agree that sexual abuse of men goes without the representation and talk it deserves, but dumb horror films isn't the platform for that.

[ADFSDF1996]

This movie is considered "female empowerment", in my opinion that's goo enough to be a misandrist film.

[ADFSDF1996]

People say that the game of thrones has male rape parts, technically they aren't rape except for one of them.

[RachelBrigs]

The public doesn't take these movies seriously. I mean sure some people may but most don't. They're cheap dumb horror movies.

There's nothing misandric about a movie depicting a man raping a woman. If you think you're personally victimized by a film like that, you either have a serious lack of empathy and a self centered outlook on life, or you're identifying with rapists. Either way, it's an issue.

Women get raped. Often. It's horrible. We should discuss it as a society, not remove it from tv, books, movies etc to satisfy your feelings.

Men get raped too- it's equally horrible. We should also discuss it as a society.

One does not cancel out the other.

Now you're also being hypocritical if you say a movie showing a man as a rapist is misandric bc it apparently suggests all men are rapists yet you want movies showing women as rapists. Wouldn't that suggest all women are rapists according to your logic?

[ADFSDF1996]

Of course rapists are evil, I'm not identifying with those kind of people. What I'm saying is that if people make movies like this, at least they should make the even out the movies with whichever gender portrays the rapist.

[RachelBrigs]

@ADFSDF1996 your logic with this whole thing has been backwards lol. Have a good day.

[ADFSDF1996]

My logic isn't backwards, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be movies about female victims, what I'm saying is that if they make movies about female victims, they should make an equal amount of movies involving make victims.

[ADFSDF1996]

*male victims

[RachelBrigs]

Yes it is. Because if it's misandric to depict a man as a racist it's misogynistic to depict a woman as a rapist (that's your logic)
Also bc life isn't a perfectly equal balance. If you are absolutely dying for cheap horror movies about men being raped, make them. These movies are made by individuals. You're just as obligated as the rest of society. There is no "they"

[ADFSDF1996]

You clearly missed the whole point, I don't have a problem with men being depicted as rapists but I don't like how people assume that only men can rape.

[RachelBrigs]

You are missing every point.

[ADFSDF1996]

I understand what you are saying but you do realize that a lot people don't have empathy for male victims right? A lot of women laugh whenever a man is sexually abused or raped.

[RachelBrigs]

Uh yeah... and like I've said about three times now, that needs to change, but it has absolutely nothing to do with these movies

[derek2017]

mubi.com/.../feminist-pro-feminist-and-misandrist-films

[GoldMeddle]

Yeah, there's things that could be considered misandrist. I honestly tend to ignore that though, because as soon as you mention that SJWs come back with a long list of misogynistic things, and that drives me insane.

I don't see misandry or misogyny in movies as an issue to be honest. But I get what you were trying to do, and I fully support it.

[madhatters4]

"However whenever a movie shows misandry, it is always praised."

always praised? i don't know that to be true. I think there are definitely movies that are criticized for the treatment of women towards men

but sadly there are movies that contain misandry and misogyny

[Zorax]

Ok, these movies mostly are disgusting, but none of them claim that all man are "rapists". Women are the main characters, so what? There are incomparably more movies with men as the main characters.
By the way, Vagina Dentata from the movie Teeth is a real medical condition, caused by dermoid cyst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata
Mythology of various ethnic groups exaggerated that condition, turning it into something monstrous.

[This_is_my_username]

You DO know that the first one is about a woman who gets gang raped and then goes on a revenge spree right? I believe that the other movies do contain rape and graphic horror scenes as well. But hello they are filed under the Horror/Torture and/or Torture porn genre i believe.. that's the whole damn point dude. You can't just say HORROR movie and have pigtails and butterflies going about in the movie now can you. That defeats the purpose.

[ADFSDF1996]

The point is that the movie depicts men as rapists, which is cliché. That's what I don't like. Another thing I don't like is the extreme gender violence against men.

[This_is_my_username]

any violence against anyone is wrong. IT'S not a act that should be tolertated by anyone. "What do you mean depicts men as rapists" how is it a cliche when it happens. Some men that are uneducated and have no basic morals and empathy do commit rape against women. It ain't pretty but then again life isn't. The movie is not saying " EY all men are rapist." but are instead saying, "This shit happens." Not by all men of course but a portion of them do. And yes. Some WOMEN do rape men and that is extremely important and should be treated equally as when a man would rape a woman. It should be brought to light more.

[ADFSDF1996]

Unfortunately not that many people care about men so it will be awhile before any sympathy for men is shown.

[This_is_my_username]

Omg dude. Just o mah gawd. 🐷

[ADFSDF1996]

It's true though, it's the elephant in the room.

[derek2017]

mubi.com/.../feminist-pro-feminist-and-misandrist-films

[Chief16]

You do realise that these movies are horrible excuses of films. Don't you?
I'm surprised someone would go out of their way to find this shit. These movies don't just dehumanize men, they also dehumanize women.

[ADFSDF1996]

The women are viewed as victims, that's not dehumanizing.

[Chief16]

Really? They're portrayed as victim turned torture experts/ murderers, its just a poor excuse for a plot device just as these very films assume men as scum without any redeemable qualities. They are both dehumanizing.

[ADFSDF1996]

It dehumanizes men though. It's reported that 8 men walked out during the screening of the first film.

[LittleSally]

So... unlike millions who feature mysoginy there are only 5 movies that feature misandry - of which you haven't even seen most... Why would that offend you then?

But yeah, the horror movie genre is that way - features hatred and torture - because that's just what it does.

[AllThatSweetJazz]

If you count misogyny as anything violent or negative happening to a woman then sure... millions, whatever you say lady.

[front2back]

Sometimes I feel like rape is just inserted into movies/TV shows as nothing more than a plot advancer/justifier.

[ADFSDF1996]

That's possible.

[derek2017]

@LittleSally i dont know why you blocked me but no there are actually a lot more misandristic films! there are like 100 or something! here's an article with most of them:

[derek2017]

*sorry wrong link this is the one:https://mubi. com/lists/feminist-pro-feminist-and-misandrist-films

[itsallover]

So you pick out a few movies, terrible horror flicks at that, and suddenly the whole film industry is 'misandrist'? Give me a break, please...

You also don't seem to grasp that portraying the woman as a victim is also dehumanising, as well as the obvious oversexualisation of the female characters on the posters.

[ADFSDF1996]

There is oversexualization of men as well. How is portraying women as the victim dehumanizing? The film dehumanizes men, also I didn't say the entire film industry is misandrist.

[itsallover]

How is it not dehumanising? Seeing women consistently being reduced to simply a 'damsel in distress' is not my idea of a positive or substantial portrayal of our gender. It just perpetuates and fuels gender roles and stereotypes.

Of course there's the oversexualisation of men, but you'd be lying to yourself if you believed men are just as sexualised as women.

[ADFSDF1996]

So you're saying women have it worse? The movie is more dehumanizing to men because of how it depicts men. Where are the movie about female rapists, where are the movies about make rape victims. There are a few movies were men are the victim but it's depicted as dark humor. There are only two movies that I know of where the male rape victim is depicted in a serious manner.

[itsallover]

Where did I say women have it worse? Please point it out to me. Both genders have each of their respective challenges, but to make this a contest is just pure idiocy.

Ever cared to wonder why that is. Violence against men, especially rape, is largely taboo and swept under the carpet. Men are made to feel ashamed and demasculinised for it. Therefore it would be controversial and unprofitable to release a movie about it.

[ADFSDF1996]

That's exactly my point, it is taboo to make a movie about men's issues because the misandrista would flip out.

[derek2017]

mubi.com/.../feminist-pro-feminist-and-misandrist-films

[HonestWeirdo]

now I can tell you are trolling

[Anonymous]

You seem to not get the fact that these are HORROR movies, of course they are going to feature fucked up topics and hatred. Also I've seen a few of these movies and one of them feature the woman getting raped. I don't understand how it's misandry to feature a woman getting raped. It's not. So you pick out a few flicks and suddenly the whole film industry is misandrist. Lol ok.

[ADFSDF1996]

It's the way they depict men.

[Opinion Owner]

So what? Some men are bad people, and so are some women. That's not misandry, that's just life. Deal with it.

[ADFSDF1996]

It's rare that women are depicted as evil.

[Opinion Owner]

I can think of a lot of instances.

[derek2017]

i can't...

[HonestWeirdo]

martyrs, frontiers, inside, hand that rocks the cradle, braindead, some of the saw films, misery. Can't be bothered to carry on

[ginny_weasley]

It's a horror movie genre. And yes there are movies and genres where women get raped. Just watch Game of Thrones.

By the way, I love that show. House Stark will rise.

[ADFSDF1996]

They always portray the woman as the victim though.

[ginny_weasley]

Daenerys is a badass. She has an army of over 100,000 men, three dragons, and is a queen. Sansa was depicted as naive in the early seasons last episode she was leading an army of 10,000 men in order to save her brother. Arya is a trained assassin and avenged the red wedding. But yes tell me more about how they depict women as the victim.

[ADFSDF1996]

What I meat to say is that they act as if men are somehow immune to rape. They make it seem as if only men can rape. Very rarely do they make a man a victim.

[ginny_weasley]

Have you read the books or at the very least seen the show? Yes there have been male rape victims. Lysa raped lord baslish by pretending to be catelyn. Tywin raped Tyrion by forcing him to have sex with Tysha. Maester Kerwin was raped by the Ironborn on the Iron Victory. Varys was forced to sell his body after he was cut. Aeron may have been sexually abused by Euron. Ramsay raped Theon by forcing him to "perform" on Jeyne

[ginny_weasley]

Plus that happened in just one book. Many others since it's a series.

[ADFSDF1996]

I don't watch this show. Most of the male rape victims in movies are always made to look humorous.

[ADFSDF1996]

I'm guessing that first "rape" scene is just a regular sex scene because it's a woman posing as another woman. No pain is caused.

[ginny_weasley]

If you don't watch it then don't comment. I watch the show and read the books. Game of Thrones never made male rape look humorous. Again you don't watch the show so shut your mouth.

[ginny_weasley]

Do you watch the show? No. Great shut the hell up about Game of Thrones.

[ADFSDF1996]

This is probably one of the exceptions. I guarantee you that most movies, shows and books depict women as the victim.

[ADFSDF1996]

No need to be rude, Miss Weasley. I'm referring to other movies and shows, not game of thrones.

[ginny_weasley]

Not denying that. But don't complain to me about men not being depicted as the victim. If you couldn't tell, I am a poor college student with 10,000 debt and I am only half way through college not a multimillion dollar movie producer.

[ginny_weasley]

But the fact is that you're still complaining to me like I can change something with the snap of my fingers.

[ADFSDF1996]

I'm not complaining to you, I'm just making people more aware of misandry.

[ginny_weasley]

We're all aware but if you haven't noticed we are a very superficial and materialistic society. If no one told you, people care more about the kardashians than real problems.

[ADFSDF1996]

That's true, people care more about celebrities.

[ADFSDF1996]

I couldn't find any info on those male "rapes" from game of thrones. They aren't considered rapes except for the character named Master Kerwin.

[ADFSDF1996]

The reason why they aren't considered rape scenes is because the man isn't being restrained in those scenes.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

That scene in hostel II is fucking nasty... And I've seen human centipede 2 and teeth 😩

[mistixs]

Maybe you should watch the films before making comments. In ISOYG2, one of the people who kidnapped the rape victim, was a woman.

[TheDevilInside]

Yet just by looking at the Posters, these movies still oversexualize women. Most of the Posters do.

[ADFSDF1996]

Both genders are oversexualized.
s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...0ba0d74ea1.jpg

[TheDevilInside]

ONE example of a male nipple on a movie poster. Call the cops!

[TheDevilInside]

All I'm saying is, despite the misandry that you See in above mentioned movies, you can tell that these movies were made by and/or for men.

[ADFSDF1996]

You see, the same way you don't take this seriously is the same way I feel about the posters above.

[ADFSDF1996]

Probably by white knights.

[TheDevilInside]

I doubt it. Guys just want to See half naked girls kick ass.

[ADFSDF1996]

8 men walked out of the screening of the first film.

[ADFSDF1996]

They couldn't even watch the whole movie.

[TheDevilInside]

8 out of how many?

[ADFSDF1996]

It didn't say.

[derek2017]

mubi.com/.../feminist-pro-feminist-and-misandrist-films

[CisScum]

It's a fucking horror movie dude, of course the men are going to be scary as fuck and really horrible people, it's fiction and horror.

[Anonymous]

But I thought only men could be sexist against women! Such fallacy!

[ADFSDF1996]

That's what a lot of people believe unfortunately.

[Zombie_Killer_Redux]

I actually love all those f*cking movies!