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I finished watching Netflix’s new series, Love, Death, and Robots, (or maybe more accurately Love, Death, and Violent Misogyny) and it made me think about how there’s an important conversation to be had about the difference between sexual violence and sexualized violence, and how insidious copious amounts of sexualized violence is, especially when just like sexual violence women are overwhelmingly the target

Warning: this post contains descriptions of sexualized violence, descriptions of gore, and discussion of sexual assault

We all probably know what sexual violence is, it’s sexual assault and any sort of forced or unwanted sexual acts or contact. It’s usually done as an assertion of power over the victim.

But what is sexualized violence and how is it different? A good and prominent example of this that most of us have probably seen and are aware of is present in slasher films starting in the 70′s and up until now. Usually it involves a woman who’s young, sexy, conventionally attractive. She’s in the middle of changing, or naked just because, or she just engaged in a consensual sex, and then BAM the killer shows up and brutually gores her, she’s screaming, there’s blood, and probably a shot of her nude body and exposed breasts while she’s being gored and brutalized.

In Love, Death, and Robots there’s copious amounts of sexualized violence, which is incredibly insidious from a show that appears to try to be angling itself as “girl power / empowering for women” in some of the episodes. It’s especially disgusting and insidious because this show also felt like it tries to appeal to adolescent boys, a lot of media that tries to appeal to adolescent boys just love Love, Death, and Robots has copious amounts of sexualized violence, it’s so insidious because it’s coding boys from a young age to associate violence and brutality against women with sexiness, and when it’s a repeated theme again and again and again in many different shows, movies, and games you can see how this could have a great deal of influence on the sexuality of adolescent boys. Then look at the rates of women who are murdered by sexual partners, ex sexual partners, or just men who were sexually attracted to them and you might be able to piece together why copious amounts of sexualized violence against women in the media is a fucking problem when we’re coding young boys to see brutality and violence against women as sexy.

I mean, think of Pavlov’s Dog and the power of association. When it’s a repeated theme again and again and again in media, which sexualized violence is, we’re trained to associate the arousal of seeing a young and conventionally attractive nude woman on screen with the gore and brutality that inevitably ensues in a lot of media, such as your typical slasher film or in this case Love, Death, and Robots.

Adult men are not immune to this either, so yes Love, Death, and Robots has a MA rating for adults, but adolescent boys aren’t the only ones I’m worried about. Besides, how many 14-17 year old boys have their parents supervising every little bit of media they consume and making sure their kids don’t watch any mature content?

Sonnie’s edge was particularly insidious because of how it appears to wear a cloak of a “girl power” episode, but we have two women who begin to engage in consensual sexual touching, one gets half nude and there’s a lot of shots of her exposed breasts, and then when the audience is titillated suddenly there’s gore and violence against one of these women, then not too long after the half nude woman with exposed breasts gets gored as well.

The Witness was just bad and gratuitous, the whole episode is a half naked, and then suddenly for “plot” reasons completely naked woman (a young, thin, conventionally attractive woman at that) being chased around by a man trying to murder her, of course he’s fully clothed, while she’s running in fear for her life with her exposed breasts wobbling around, and plenty of shots of said exposed breasts wobbling as she’s terrified and running for her life from a (fully clothed) man trying to kill her. How is that not insidious and gratuitous?  

In Beyond the Aquila Rift we have a very graphic and detailed sex scene, then only a few moments later we see the male protagonist shoving and slamming the woman up against the wall we were just graphically shown him having sex with, oh but it’s actually “okay” because she’s just an alien manipulating his mind. Actually, that brings up another trope I’ve noticed that I think is worth dissecting, how much we see this theme in media of where a man is physically aggressive with a woman he’s dating/married to/sleeping with but it’s justified by the plot because she’s secretly an alien/monster/spirit or w/e, and how this might normalize IRL men being physically aggressive with sexual partners because there’s some reason it’s “justifiable”

The worst and most disgusting example was in The Secret War. The only women we see the entire episode are mutilated corpses, the only speaking characters who are alive and have any dignity and plot other than being a mutilated corpse are men. In the beginning of the episode we see very brief shots of mutilated peasant women scattered around, but at least they’re clothed like the male characters are. The most upsetting and disgusting part was halfway through the episode we see the nude corpse of a woman, her body fits conventional standards of sex appeal, she’s clearly young and skinny with large breasts, but she’s a mutilated corpse with her entrails hanging out, she’s tied up and restrained in a way reminiscent of sexual bondage with her legs tied spread eagle apart but wrists bound together. We get plenty of shots of her large exposed breasts, but also her entrails hanging out. I was too upset and disgusted that the only woman we see for more than a second in the entire episode is the tied up mutilated corpse of a young skinny large breasted woman that I couldn’t even fucking finish the episode. Fuck that. Most of the warnings I see for this episode only mention the gore, but fail to mention the specific misogynistic implications of having an episode where the only women shown are mutilated corpses and in one case the unnecessarily nude mutilated tied up corpse of a young skinny busty woman.

Shit I feel like it would have been less misogynistic to have just not shown any women at all the entire episode than to only show one woman, and she’s nude, and tied up, and mutilated, and dead. Fuck, how much does whoever made The Secret War hate women?

Can you imagine the male tears and outcry if an episode only showed women the entire episode, and the one shot we get of a man the entire episode it’s the corpse of a young and conventionally attractive man, we get plenty of shots of his glistening chiseled abs and ass, and also see he’s been violently gored and has his entrails hanging out, meanwhile living and clothed women stand around him and get plot and personalities and dignity? Can you fucking imagine that ever even being made in the first place?

This show might be trying to angle itself as “girl power” in certain episodes but with all the gratuitous sexualized violence, I’m not buying it. It’s actually deeply misogynistic and gratuitous. An especially big FUCK YOU to whoever is responsible for making the misogynistic garbage that is The Secret War

The only episodes I can really recommend if you really want to watch it are Three Robots, Lucky 13, Zima Blue, and Fish Night.

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Hello! Life has been a little bit chaotic. withovertume at work again and all thaty. Well truthfully here’s another reason why.

Well it was last Wednesday night at my job and my co worker sent me this screenshot of dogs needing homes and that were up for adoption at the local shelter in the area. I’ve always loved Shiba Inus.

I just instantly got this feeling in my chest that there was something wrong and this dog really needed me to help him. That he really needed me.

So i sent my boyfriend the picture and he fell in love with him. We decided we would adopt him and if he couldn’t get along with our other dog after a good amount of time we would have to re home him, but at least he wouldn’t be in the shelter as the worst case scenario.

So when we went to meet him he perked up so much and was so excited to go outside. He didn’t seem to show any reaction to the other dogs as we walked by, a good sign he wasn’t dog aggressive, and so we took him out. He was really affectionate and wanted to play. We decided we would move on to the next step.

So as we were going over paper work, he started to violently cough and hack, and then vomited a ton of bile on the floor.  I ran back outside with him until his cough attack stopped. So I went back in, looking the shelter director in the eye and sternly stated “This dog is clearly really sick and he probably has kennel cough. Has he been taken to the vet or given anything?” They proceeded to laugh and tell me its just probably something in the air and he had been doing that for days, and that I was just overreacting. 

The poor thing was probably trying to be brave and pretend he wasn’t sick because he didn’t want to get abandoned.

I graduated and went to school to be a veterinary technician. I know a sick dog when I see one. Kennel cough is similar to bad cold, but it is highly contagious, meaning the rest of the dogs probably had it there too., and if not treated, will result in death.

I went back outside to make some calls, my usual vet couldn’t see us until the next day, but I knew this dog needed to see someone today. I called another vet and they could take us in at 4. I explained we would be back to get him at 4. paid all his fees, and went home.

Most people would have changed their minds, but I couldn’t leave him.

When we got to the vet, they diagnosed him with bronchitis, which is similar in symptoms with kennel cough, but much worse obviously. He had a high fever and he was extremely contagious. He was prescribed some anti-inflammation and some antibiotics. Because of this, I had no choice but to pretty much keep him in his own room, and to expose him as little as possible so my other dog wouldn’t catch it hopefully.

After I gave him an old blanket, fresh food and water, and give him his medicine for the day. He instantly laid down and went straight to sleep. You could tell he was feeling so bad and was probably relieved to have a nice place to sleep.

We named him Katsu. He’s feeling much better but has over a week of medicine left. His cough attacks are less violent and he only has some wheezing a few times a day. He drinks a lot of water and wants to play but we’re trying to limit his activity for his health.

That being said, because he is still sick and contagious, he’s still been separated from my other dog. They both don’t like it.

He has another vet appointment next week to check how he is and hopefully start his vaccines.

Honestly, this has drained my bank account to almost empty.

I did the math before adopting him, but I never planned he would be this sick and need as much medical attention. And missing almost a week of work before due to cellulitis didn’t help much either.

That being said, if you would like to help and donate funds for Katsu’s medication and treatment, I’d be so grateful. I love him and want to continue to help him so he can feel better and have the happy life he deserves.

If you can’t help that’s fine but if you could signal boost this to get the word around I’d really, really appreciate it. You can donate via PayPal or Kofi.

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