Fuck you too, Jody Hill

[exsequar]

I was somehow unaware of this discussion currently going on, but esorlehcar linked the following post and I think you all need to read it:

Observe & Report: On Real Rape

Apparently (and these things still manage to shock me) this movie (Observe & Report, Jody Hill's new movie starring Seth Rogan and Anna Faris) contains a scene in which Rogan's character has sex with Faris's while she is drugged out of her mind and unconscious. It is supposed to be funny. She wakes up for a bleary moment and tells him not to stop - so he doesn't. This is the punchline.

Actual tears of rage.

That post is so much more eloquent than I could ever be, but suffice to say that it's really hard not to completely despair in the face of attitudes like these. To know that many guys (and maybe even girls!) I know or at least am acquainted with will go see this movie and laugh at this scene makes my stomach twist painfully. And the fact that Jody Hill lifts this scene up as something "edgy" and "hilarious" is just as painful. It's not even the product of some studio pushing for it, or something ignorant - it is a willful act of subjugating the right of a woman to her own body for the purposes of humor and entertainment.

I am so, so angry. And sad.

Comments

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I will never spend any money or time on this movie, because the facts are incontrovertible. There is a scene in which a fully conscious man has sex with a woman who is high/drunk beyond belief. There is no question about whether or not that is wrong - it. is. wrong. And the director's statement about the humor of it only seals the deal. Maybe I'll watch 5 seconds of it when it shows up on youtube, just to confirm my opinion, but I don't feel it is necessary in the slightest.

Maybe I'm a stubborn bitch, but Jody Hill can go fuck himself with a rusty rake.

[jamesinclair.livejournal.com]

Not wanting to spend money on it is understandable. But watch it online, and not just that scene. You cant get a feel for what kind of movie and humor it is without the whole thing.

Knocked up had a scene in which the woman is drunk (and so is the man) resulting in a baby. That's a very different kind of humor than this one.

None of the reviews I read even make reference to the scene, so it must not be remarkable in comparison.