I
don't normally post more than the list but in today's blog I wanted
to discuss something that I thought was important. On May 23, 2014-
6 people were killed. It turned that the murderer left a manifesto
and a youtube video that demonstrated the killer's misogynistic
beliefs. He planned the murders to get back at women for rejecting
him and at the type of men those women would have chosen.
This
sparked many discussions all over the net from various blogs to
twitter (#yesallwomen). In these discussions, women and men discussed
the treatment of women and how that treatment is reflected in our
culture. This phenomenon is called “rape culture.”
Rape
Culture is the idea that culture supports the a toxic masculinity and
the degradation of women through sexual violence. To be honest, I'm
not really an expert on the topic so I'll provide a few links that
give better information.
These
are articles that support the idea that there is a rape culture:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/what-is-rape-culture
These
are articles that don't support the idea that there is a rape
culture:
Well,
how does this connect to a blog that looks for connections in
television, movies, games, books, and more. It connected because rape
culture stated that acceptance of rape was the norm of society and has permeated
every part of culture including our television, movies, books and
more.
There
are many reasons that the creators of the different medias design their
work. Some of the reasons include: to tell a story, to draw attention
to something, or even because it is what they know. Of course these
are only a few reasons. Anyways what do you think? Are these books,
movies, comics, games all a product of a rape-culture? Is it the creator just
trying to relate a good story? Is it a commentary on society? What is
a creator's responsibility to society when creating a book, a movie,
a video game, or some other media? Do they write what they want, what
is good for society, what they know, or some combination? Hash it out
in the comments. Thanks.
A.
Hush Hush by Becca
Fitzpatrick
Summary:
A girl named Nora met a boy called Patch. She wasn't't comfortable
with him and yet was still attracted to him. She got drawn into events
that were bigger than her and she moved closer to Patch. The closer they became, the more Nora learned about Patch's secrets.
Commentary:
From what I have read the main character, Patch,
hadbthe ability to mind read. Using that ability he spied on Nora, manipulated her,
and even followed her around.
Check
this blog out for a more depth commentary on it:
http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1032547.html
Connection:
One
of the characters is named Chauncey Langeais.
He was revealed to be
Patch's vassal, was supposed to be blonde, was a nephilim, lived at the Chateau de Langeais, and was in fact the Duc de Langeais. He may be related to a characters from
Balzac's story La
Duchesse de Langeais.
Her name was the Duchesse Antoinette de Langeais.
1. La
Duchess de Langeais (2007)
Summary:
In this story (which is based on a book by Balzac) Duchess
Antoinette de Langeais was a coquette. She went to a salon held by
Madame de Serizy in which Armand de Montriveau was invited. De
Montriveau was a war hero and Antoinette decided that she wanted to
make him a conquest. When Armand met the Duchess, he fell in love.
She flirted with him and he flirted back, eventually she decided that didn't want to be with him. He got aggressive. She feared and
loved him and it eventually forced her to disappear. Montriveau had connections with a mysterious group called the 13. This group helped Armand find the missing Duchesse. Antoinette commited suicide rather
than submit.
Commentary:
One of the reasons I chose this story was because after months of
intense flirting, of loving, of fearing him- Antoinette was kidnapped by Montriveau.
He even threatened to brand her. Also the
author wrote the character of Antoinette to resemble the Duchess of
Castries with whom he had a failed romance.
Connection:
Madame Serizy was the name of one of the characters in the movie.
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| May be the one on the right |
She shared a name with the lead characters in the movie Belle de Jour- Pierre and Severine Serizy. I hypothesize that Pierre Serizy may be a descendant of Madame Serizy.
2.
Belle De Jour (1967)
Summary:
This movie was directed by
Bunuel and based on a book by Joseph Kessel. In it, the husband and
wife, Pierre and Severine, were having marital problem. She couldn't find
fulfillment and was frigid. To get over it, Severine decided to start
working in a brothel during the afternoons while her husband was gone and returned before he got home. She earned the Belle de Jour with these actions. But things went downhill. A friend of the family realized out
what she was doing and a client of hers became possessive.
Commentary:
I chose this story because of the way that Severine's sadomasochism developed. The story indicated that she derived pleasure from pain because of rape, and because
of some the experiences at the brothel.
Connection:
One of Pierre and Severine's friends in the movie was a girl named
Renee Fevret.
Fevret was also the last name of a character in James Hadley
Chase's Have This One on
Me. Joseph Fevret was the
owner of restaurant called Chez Joseph and is in Paris. He is
probably a descendant of Renee Fevret.
3.
Have This One On Me by James Hadley Chase
Summary:
A CIA operative had been discovered and needed to be taken out by his
own. The people who were watching him were waiting for a move to be
made. The CIA had one guy on stand by to do it and another guy, an
ex-operative, they tricked in to be a decoy. This decoy was a man by the
name of Mark Girland.
Commentary:
Alec Worthington was the operative that needed to be taken out. He knew
he was in trouble and tried to leave. He met with an asset by
the name of Mala Reid- for help and because he had a
crush on her. He pushed his way in and demanded that he stayed. She
didn't like it, but finally acquiesced.
Connection:
Alec Worthington was a CIA operative. Not much was really known about
him, except that he was weak. And maybe intelligent as he was a CIA
operative.There may be possibility that the he could be
related to the Warren Worthington III found in Civil
War: X-Men # 3. Alec
could be an uncle to Warren Worthington III (aka Angel) and brother to Warren
Worthington Jr.
4.
Civil War: X-Men #3
by David Hine
Summary:
A
lot of fighting occurs. Bishop was overloaded with energy which he
released at a sentinel. Micromax and Sabra attack the X-Men, but then
stop long enough to talk with Angel. Inside a nearby facility,
Lorelei was talking about Johnny Dee who attacked. Later Dee and Lazer
are confronted.
Commentary:
Lorelei was possessed mentally by Johnny Dee. And she was a sexualized
character.
Connection;
One of the other characters in the story was Col. Miguel Reyes.
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Along with his sister, Cecilia,
he was born in the Bronx. Unlike his sister he had no mutant ability. But two of them were supposed to be Puerto Rican, but that doesn't rule out them being part African or having an African cousin by the name of Joslin Reyes. Joslin Reyes took part in the Tomb Raider series.
5.
Tomb Raider Series
Summary:
In the Tomb Raider
series, the 2013 game in the Crystal Dynamics era was a reboot game
for Lara Croft. In this game she was on a ship called the Endurance.
The
Endurance crashed and she was separated from the rest of the survivors. Lara was captured by
a strange man, but escaped. Then, she met up with her group where they worked on getting rescued. This game gave Lara a new reason to learn the
survival skills she will know and to become harder.
Commentary:
In one of the scenes, there was an attempted rape of Lara.
Or that was what one person who worked on the game may have stated. Another
person who worked on the game, a writer, claimed that she wasn't
almost raped, just almost murdered, and whatever reaction Lara had
was due do that.
Connection:
In another game in the Tomb Raider series, the Guardian of Light,
there was downloadable content. This included characters by the name
of Kane and Lynch. Kane and Lynch star in their own games named
after themselves.
6.
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days
Summary:
In this game, Kane and Lynch were running an errand in Shanghai. It went bad and they end up getting a fire fight. They killed a girl and
her boyfriend, Brady, killed himself. The next day they tried to
arrange a smuggling thing, but Brady's gang was after them. And fot the rest of the game they just tried to survive being while trying to earn the big score.
Commentary:
Lynch's girlfriend was beaten and raped to get back at him. While
there was no controversy about this, I still bring up because this
might be another indication that rape was used too much in games.
Connection:
Once again, Kane and Lynch show
up in another game. They find themselves in Hitman:
Absolution where Kane was waiting by a bar in the mission called 'Great Balls of Fire'
while Lynch was
found in 'Biridies Gift.'
B. Hitman: Absolution
Summary:
This game was about a hitman that went by the name Agent 47. First he
killed his handler and then tracked down a young girl named Victoria.
Meanwhile, Agent 47 was being tracked by his employer while Blake
Dexter was pursing the girl that Agent 47 tracked.
Commentary:
There was a big controversy over the clip of Hitman:
Absolution that was
shown at a game convention. Female assassins were getting out of nuns
outfits revealing sexy clothing while Agent 47 was dressing
up.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/hitman_absolution/b/xbox360/archive/2012/07/05/learn-more-about-those-sexy-nuns-in-new-hitman-absolution-trailer.aspx?PageIndex=2
