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If you want people to stop slut shaming, stop making ‘controversial photos’, sex tapes, and the intimate sexual lives of celebrities important, scandalous news.
“Doesn’t it ever bother you that all our wives dreams come true, and ours don’t? I mean look at Maggie. When she was a little girl she played house, you bought her a house! She probably played with an ezy-bake oven, you bought her a Viking! She wanted to be a mummy, you made her a mummy with your penis!”
That just sums up the stupid Middle Male America view of women. I’m sure they had other plans. Perhaps a career? Ever thought of that? Not all girls play with doll houses, or play baking, or play with baby dolls either. And just cos they didn’t doesn’t make them butch or unfeminine. Neither does not wanting to be a stay at home mum or trophy housewife.
UGH there are so many things wrong with this movie. I fuckin’ hate it.
I was hopeful. I saw the new take on Lara Croft way back when and thought, well, color me intrigued. The old Lara Croft never really spoke to me — comic book proportions, sassy British accent, short-shorts, whatever. No harm, no foul, but not the game for me. And then along comes this new reimagining — Lara Croft by way of John McClane. A rougher, tougher hero — kicked around but triumphant.
I was good with that.
I’m not so good with it now.
I refer you to this article: You’ll ‘Want To Protect’ The New, Less Curvy Lara Croft, at Kotaku.
From that article:
“When people play Lara, they don’t really project themselves into the character,” Rosenberg told me at E3 last week when I asked if it was difficult to develop for a female protagonist.
“They’re more like ‘I want to protect her.’ There’s this sort of dynamic of ‘I’m going to this adventure with her and trying to protect her.’”
So is she still the hero? I asked Rosenberg if we should expect to look at Lara a little bit differently than we have in the past.
“She’s definitely the hero but— you’re kind of like her helper,” he said. “When you see her have to face these challenges, you start to root for her in a way that you might not root for a male character.”
Well, sure. Because who could possibly relate to a — snerk, gasp — female protagonist? Better instead to assume that we’re just helping the poor dear along. Because if we don’t, well…
In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft will suffer. Her best friend will be kidnapped. She’ll get taken prisoner by island scavengers. And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her.
“She is literally turned into a cornered animal,” Rosenberg said. “It’s a huge step in her evolution: she’s forced to either fight back or die.”
Ah! See, there it is. If we don’t act as her helper, we’ll “help” her get raped.
Read the rest at: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/06/12/the-victimization-of-lara-croft/
