She's So Heavy.

A feminist Complaint about film "Silence Of the Lambs"

In a 1992 interview, notable feminist and women's rights advocate Betty Friedan stated,

"I thought it was absolutely outrageous that The Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars. [...] I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shown. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive."

The movie was written about a serial killer! Of course he is going to kill people! The protagonist was a woman, a strong woman at that, that is capable of holding her own against the two male villains! If that doesn't support feminism what does?

I feel that in our society men are victimized just as much as women. Around 40% of domestic violence is committed against men by women. But if he calls the police, the is laughed at, told to "Man up". Feminist groups claim that women deserve equality with men, which they do. Well I'm here to say that I think men deserve equality with women, the right to equal child custody (in which they are badly represented), the right to take roles in society such as nurses or househusbands, without the scorn of peers, the right to feel pain, to cry, without losing face. The "man" in the relationship is a redundant term if genders are equal, is it not?

If you want the genders to be equal, fair enough, let them be equal. But don't complain about the consequences.