Comments on: Observing and Reporting Rape Culture at Work

By: Observe and Report: It Gets Worse. Much Worse. : The Curvature

Observe and Report: It Gets Worse. Much Worse. : The Curvature — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:52:48 +0000

[...] Apparently that Seth Rogen Observe and Report movie is way, way, way, way worse than I had already anticipated. It does not only just make plain old “rape jokes,” as in characters joking about [...]

By: Cara

Cara — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:13:09 +0000

Nope, Sara, I haven’t seen that one yet. Sounds awful, though.

By: Sara Brigham

Sara Brigham — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:31:20 +0000

On a sort of related note I was wondering if anyone else saw the trailer for Crank: High Voltage in which Jason Statham (for some dumbass reason) has to keep feeding himself an electrical charge to stay alive, and someone tells him he can use static electricity in a pinch, so go “rub up against someone,” and he proceeds to assault some old woman? It made me think of this post because as with Observe and Report the trailer cut to a subsequent scene of some “hysterical woman” reporting the incident to a cop, saying, “He treated me like a piece of meat!” Hilarious, right? Because one: anything short of rape isn’t REALLY a sex crime, and therefore reporting it is blowing everything way out of proportion on a comical scale, and two: since we ALL know women are asexual after menopause, the fact that this was an unattractive old woman as opposed to an attractive young woman just PROVES there was nothing sexual about it therefore it’s harmless fun. It really creeped me out.

By: DCN

DCN — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:50:09 +0000

While the joke is repugnant under any circumstances, I was absolutely stunned to hear it during a trailer shown on network television (and presumably approved for “all audiences” by the MPAA). It made me think of your blog immediately and I’m so glad to see you reporting on it.

By: Iyapo

Iyapo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:44:07 +0000

Ugh. I had to sit through that awful trailer at a movie, it was so gross. The rape jokes, and “ugly fat guy gets hot stupid chick” humor was disgusting. I’m glad I’m not alone in hating this movie.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:23:25 +0000

I saw a trailer for this last weekend–yes, it’s misogynistic, but it’s also racist–the trailer included ‘jokes’ based on Asian and Mexican stereotypes. All of this added up made me say, “nope, don’t care how well this is reviewed, I am not ever watching this movie.”

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:20:42 +0000

Did you miss the trailer of WHY she’s so sloppy drunk? He puts pills or something in her drink.

WHAT? No, the one I saw had her sitting at the restaurant with several empty shot glasses in front of her.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:17:43 +0000

‘Did you miss the trailer of WHY she’s so sloppy drunk? He puts pills or something in her drink.’

…Christ.

By: karak

karak — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:17:30 +0000

As soon as I saw the trailers on this one, I could feel the ickiness sinking in.

Did you miss the trailer of WHY she’s so sloppy drunk? He puts pills or something in her drink.

And every time I see the drunk-puke-kiss, I gag a little. Ugh, on so many levels.

By: AshKW

AshKW — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:52:43 +0000

Bares teeth…has sworn off Rogen/Apatow movies for eternity.

This is NOT funny. Not at all. Not in any way.