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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: slasher flicks
Message-ID: <529@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 10:30:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 10:30:39 1985
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	Though several people have mentioned that they don't go to
the "Friday the 13th" type of movie because of the violence depicted,
no one has yet mentioned how this type of film demeans women in a
very particular way. In almost all of them, the victims are young women
who "get theirs" because they are sexually active, or dare to show
some independence. The audience is encouraged to take the viewpoint of
the sicko killer, by using the killer's view as the camera angle (so
that what one sees is what the killer "sees"). The audiences for this type
of movie are in large part young men, who seem to get a big kick out 
of it. In fact, it's pretty scary how popular these anti-woman, anti-HUMAN
movies are. I would encourage everyone to BOYCOTT films of this type.
If you feel that pornography is damaging, then you must agree that
movies like this, *which are much more widely-accepted and viewed* than
most of the really violent porn, have a dehumanising effect on the
society that supports them. Stay away. Don't give them your money and
approval.
-- 
jcpatilla

"At night, the ice weasels come."


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