J Rambles

valerierosegallaher:

gimpnelly:

Last night I went to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and to say I didn’t enjoy it would be an understatement. I’d planned to see another movie (the anime racing movie Redline) but unfortunately the showing I wanted to attend was closed for a private event. So we went over to the megaplex to…

The best part is that when women write stories about women being raped, they are often accused of being “man haters” and “feminazis.” I’ve been called both for writing a story about a woman who was raped. It’s like the rape of women is a topic that only men can address in stories, in order to be culturally “acceptable” and feasible for mass-market entertainment. It really makes me wonder if those rumors that Larsson’s partner really wrote the trilogy are true.

That’s the sad part - if it were a woman writing about the effect of rape and it was a commentary on that, it would be one thing.  Instead it’s just another shortcut to characterization using violence to women.