writing

Let me tell y’all about an extreme version of this to make a point: (cw: sexual violence in movies)

I got into a cab yesterday on the way back from the airport. It was a Lyft in fact and the driver had an iPad playing some movie featuring a sex worker and in my brief twenty minutes in the cab this woman along with another were brutally attacked and SA’ed, along with being socially ostracized (screamed at) from “normal” members of society after the attack happened.

In my opinion there’s real value in movies like this, and I am sure real victims poured their hearts into writing and producing this film and many folks will find it relatable and empowering. But in this fucked world were you can enter a bar restaurant or sometimes even health clinic and the tv is showing our violent society, and many of us are only fleetingly watching media and not seeing the conclusion that explains and nullifies the violence, I think drawing down on this stuff is called for.

Now, the real problem is TV and screens in various forms which make it incredibly easy to consume violent media but also incredibly easy to put down the media and never return before you get to the point the script writers were getting to with it.

TLDR: Americans are baby brained so we need to limit their tv/tablet/phone time to absolute 0 because without it we will always perpetuate our violent racist sexist trans/gayphobia culture.