Rape in "A Clockwork Orange", and does the BBC = Ch. 4?
Here's your Saturday morning roundup. We start with Newt In A Tea Cup, who writes in "Cinderella and Friday’s Word on Masturbation!":
"Watching the rape scene from A Clockwork Orange in our course on Shocking Cinema made me feel so very ill. Having people claim that some elements were humorous scared me even more. I found it completely terrifying and nauseating. But then what does that matter? I'm sick of all our classes dealing with rape cases and yet refusing to call them for what they are—Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, Phantom of Liberty by Bunuel both feature a scene where a woman is coerced for sex against her desire. That's called rape."Fate is Chance. Destiny is Choice. details how to complain to the BBC about a program called "The Verdict' in "Is the BBC turning into Channel 4?":
"I've been keeping informed with emails from London Feminist Network Yahoo group about this programme 'Consent' which is being aired this week or next week at 10pm. **Amendment: this is in fact the wrong programme name. The programmed being aired on Channel 4 at 10pm Sunday 21st Jan is called 'Consent' and then the programme I am referring to is called 'The Verdict', which is going to be on BBC2. However, these two programmes seem remarkably similar. I'm wondering if they are linked in some way?***Woman of (an)other Color talks about how class participation isn't so easy at college:
"The problem with this programme, apart from the fact that viewers will be drawn in by the 'cliffhanger' idea of whether a rape victim is telling the truth or not, is that there has been no indication from the BBC that they have consulted the proper channels – so they have not sought information from rape crisis organisations or police units for rape victims and survivors and so on."
"Many if not most women of color I know undermine their intelligence. Not out loud or very explicitly but there it is. I am one of these women. I sit in a literature class or history class, sometimes even a gender studies class, with something to say formulating in my mouth even before I sit down. And then as quickly as I've formulated the thought, doubt slips in,Read the rest in "Undermining my intelligence"."'I'm probably wrong. I don't know what anybody in the class is talking about. What I have to say is probably not related. I feel stupid. I am stupid. What am I doing here? …'"
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The first and the last entries pique my interest the most. I think all women, not just women of color, undergo that process...even in a gender studies glass.
We've got to re-socialize ourselves.
Ah, rape in film... At least in A Clockwork Orange it is acknowledged as a crime. What really riles me is all those "classic" old films where the girls get raped and then decide they liked it after all. Or turn out only to have been protesting they didn't like it to show their virtue. The two main offenders being Gone With The Wind and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. Do not come crying to me that these are somehow exampt from criticism because of how pretty the costumes are...!
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