{"id":46549,"date":"2019-03-20T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46549"},"modified":"2020-08-10T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:41:53","slug":"i-guess-i-shouldnt-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46549","title":{"rendered":"I guess I shouldn\u2019t be surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But apparently, Love Death & Robots<\/em> probably requires a trigger warning; despite the fact that it\u2019s an 18 episode anthology of entirely self-contained individual stories, snowflakes on the internet declare that the entire series has a problem<\/a> and that it is not okay.\u00a0 I almost don\u2019t want to link to it out of disgusted spite, but I don\u2019t really hide the things that make me tick.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long story short, the triggered link basically ignores every one of the 18 episodes except for Sonnie\u2019s Edge and The Witness, and considering the fact that prior to Netflix\u2019s alleged decision to adjust the order of the episodes<\/a>, implies that this \u201cauthor\u201d watched the first three episodes and then went off on a tangent about how the show solely glamorizes violence against women; otherwise, it goes without saying that Good Hunting would have made this post as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I agree with their point that glamorized violence against women is definitely a bad thing, but I\u2019m not the least bit convinced that the so-called author actually watched the rest of the series, and decided to anoint the series as a whole as an enemy to women, and that people should watch it with such preconceived notions.\u00a0 Sure, Netflix could\u2019ve presented the order of the episodes to not start with such jarring violence, but the fact of the matter is that in today\u2019s bingeing viewing society, viewers would still end up watching the suspect episodes eventually.<\/span><\/p>\n

I did a really stupid thing today, which was I commented about this link on social media, when an online acquaintance of mine posted this link in the first place.\u00a0 I will admit that my defenses were up seeing criticism of something that I\u2019d so recently declared my love and enjoyment for, and even after a few hours of thinking about all of this, I still feel similarly about my opinions.\u00a0 I think the article was cherry picked, and ignores the 14-15 out of 18 other episodes of the show that have literally nothing to do about sexual violence towards women.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To no surprise, my clearly defined opinion was met with some vitriol and pushback, but because I realized the error of my ways, engaging in social media in the first place, I quickly stated my acceptance of differing opinions, and that I respect the opinion of the original poster, and meant it, because they\u2019re a very well read individual, and I respect their intelligence.\u00a0 But because the internet is the internet, an offender cannot have the last word, and some person I don\u2019t know attempted to engage me, but worded in a back-handed manner that might have sounded respectful, but basically puts words in my mouth and paints me in a light where I couldn\u2019t possibly come out in a light that wasn\u2019t demonizing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m interested in hearing your defense of gratuitous sexualized violence, if it\u2019s not so much trouble for you<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh yeah, like I\u2019m really going to engage that kind of inquiry.\u00a0 Because I disagree with an internet story, I\u2019m instantly defending sexual violence?\u00a0 I love the logic of people on the internet when they feel safe behind screens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or, if you think this is not gratuitous, do you think that might be revealing as to how normalized it is to brutalize women in media, and how desensitized people in general are to it?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah no, I\u2019m not touching this.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know this person, and especially when their attempting to engage me already have their minds made up and will refuse to converse, in a public forum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad on me for deviating from my typical norm, which is avoiding social media engagement from those too far outside of my circles, and honestly, I have no horse in this race, not being female.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it doesn\u2019t change my opinion, especially seeing the piling on about how people plan to not watch the show, because of all this scuttlebutt.\u00a0 All I really have to say about that is, fine, don\u2019t.\u00a0 Nobody\u2019s holding a gun to your head and making you watch Love Death & Robots.\u00a0 That\u2019s the beauty of the world now, there are a million other things to watch at any time of the day, that you don\u2019t have to<\/em>.\u00a0 But for those who do give the show a chance, sure, there are some really violent, really explicit and possibly triggering topics among the 18 episodes.\u00a0 But I can assure, that there are 15 other episodes that do not have anything to do with sexual violence against women, and that a whole bunch of them are actually really good<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But go ahead and let some rando person on the internet that has a post presented by some rando site that looks reputable make all the decisions in your life for you, instead of coming to your own conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But apparently, Love Death & Robots probably requires a trigger warning; despite the fact that it\u2019s an 18 episode anthology of entirely self-contained individual stories, snowflakes on the internet declare that the entire series has a problem and that it is not okay.\u00a0 I almost don\u2019t want to link to it out of disgusted spite, … Continue reading I guess I shouldn\u2019t be surprised<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,52,156,69,146,182],"class_list":["post-46549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-social-media","tag-television","tag-triggered","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46551,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46549\/revisions\/46551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}