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Depicting Violence Against Women Terrible, Writing Just Great

A fun example of double standards here. We know the usual feminist argument against violent p0rno. This normalises such and makes men go out and do more. This is actually incorrect, we’ve proven this, The massive expansion of broadband and the associated trivially simple access to all sorts of p0rno has led to a fall in rape and other crimes of sexual violence against women.

Sure, certain incidences can, might, probably will have been, caused by the monkey see, monkey do experience. But what we want to know is what is the overall effect. Is the seeing a substitute for, or a complement to, the act? And on average it’s a substitute. Urges are dealt with in a solitary manner through access to the images, not acted out upon real people – on average.

So, we know the argument’s wrong but it is still made.

Then we’ve got this:

[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]The Staunch prize, awarded to a thriller in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered, was launched last year to “offer an alternative narrative to stories based around violence to women”. When it was announced, it was widely criticised by major writers including Val McDermid and Sophie Hannah. McDermid said that “as long as men commit appalling acts of misogyny and violence against women, I will write about it so that it does not go unnoticed”, and Hannah told her publishers not to submit her books for the prize.[/perfectpullquote]

Writing about such violence is a good thing. Depicting the same events on film is terribly bad. No doubt it’s a dreadful demand for mansplaining to ask why?

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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
4 years ago

In support of grammar nazis, I would like to propose the ‘Plain Prize’, to be awarded for a book in which no adjectives are used.

Quentin Vole
Quentin Vole
4 years ago
Reply to  Dodgy Geezer

Awarded posthumously to Papa Hemingway every year.

Leo Savantt
Leo Savantt
4 years ago

Still almost complete silence from feminists and for that matter from misogynists on Britain’s child sex-exploitation mass rape of children phenomena. Why? One can only think of cynical answers.

Boganboy
Boganboy
4 years ago

One inevitably assumes that the authors know what gives their readers a thrill.

Given the names, I assume that they are mainly popular with women. Indeed I’ve noticed that men seem to like to read about murder wholesale, but women prefer it retail.

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