[net.women] Women and Movies

pollack@uicsl.UUCP (09/28/84)

The mainstream press does not help people who do not want
to pay money to see rape in movie theatres.

Just as conventional critics have multiple stars, and porno reviewers have
angularly graded male parts, so should women have a
well-distributed rating for Violence agains Women in movies. 

For example, different icons could be used to express ratings:

(lowest rating)
A Dismembered dead body   (for mutilation movies)
A Bound and Gagged Body   (for silencing and rape movies)
A headless body           (for airhead  and sex-object movies)
A Body in apron           (for barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen movies)
Smiling Person            (for movies with positive images)
(highest rating)

These categories are probably enough to cover the entire range of
Hollywood offerings.

Thus, Chainsaw, Slasher and Snuff movies should get the dismembered rating,
Indiana Jones would get a Headless rating, Brimstone & Treacle (ugh!)
and Mad Max Movies would get Gagged ratings, and the Last Starfighter 
and old Doris Day movies would get Apron ratings.

With enough advanced warning, I think many people would avoid
Revenge of the Nerds (Headless) or Tightrope (Gagged) no matter
how much Siskel & Ebert liked them.

I'd probably avoid anything with an apron rating or less...

Jordan

features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) (10/04/84)

Re: possible grading for violence against women in movies

>>A headless body           (for airhead  and sex-object movies)

This reminds me of a sign for a very old (ca. 1675) tavern I saw in
Virginia.  There was a body of a woman, beheaded.  The name of the
place?  "The Silent Woman".
	(As if a woman has to have no head in order to be silent.  GRRRR!)

Mary Ann Zeszutko
ihnp4!ihuxf!features

ecl@hocsj.UUCP (10/05/84)

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> (lowest rating)
> A Dismembered dead body   (for mutilation movies)
> A Bound and Gagged Body   (for silencing and rape movies)
> A headless body           (for airhead  and sex-object movies)
> A Body in apron           (for barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen movies)
> Smiling Person            (for movies with positive images)
> (highest rating)

But what do we ASCII types do?  How about:

Body in	an apron:		    Dismembered	body:
	 o				      o
	/|\
	===				    / |	\
	/ \
					    /	\
Bound and gagged body:
	  0			    Normal (smiling) body:
	 /|\				     o
	o===o				    /|\
	 / \				    / \
	o===o

Headless body:

        /|\				Evelyn C. Leeper
        / \				...ihnp4!hocsj!ecl

P.S.  Is someone out there saving all these symbols?  Then add:
	:-)# 	smile face with a beard
	8-)	smile face with glasses