But apparently, Love Death & Robots probably requires a trigger warning; despite the fact that it’s 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. I almost don’t want to link to it out of disgusted spite, but I don’t really hide the things that make me tick.
Long story short, the triggered link basically ignores every one of the 18 episodes except for Sonnie’s Edge and The Witness, and considering the fact that prior to Netflix’s alleged decision to adjust the order of the episodes, implies that this “author” 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.
Obviously, I agree with their point that glamorized violence against women is definitely a bad thing, but I’m 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. Sure, Netflix could’ve presented the order of the episodes to not start with such jarring violence, but the fact of the matter is that in today’s bingeing viewing society, viewers would still end up watching the suspect episodes eventually.
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. I will admit that my defenses were up seeing criticism of something that I’d 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. 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.
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’re a very well read individual, and I respect their intelligence. But because the internet is the internet, an offender cannot have the last word, and some person I don’t 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’t possibly come out in a light that wasn’t demonizing.
I’m interested in hearing your defense of gratuitous sexualized violence, if it’s not so much trouble for you
Oh yeah, like I’m really going to engage that kind of inquiry. Because I disagree with an internet story, I’m instantly defending sexual violence? I love the logic of people on the internet when they feel safe behind screens.
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?
Yeah no, I’m not touching this. I don’t 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.
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.
However, it doesn’t change my opinion, especially seeing the piling on about how people plan to not watch the show, because of all this scuttlebutt. All I really have to say about that is, fine, don’t. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head and making you watch Love Death & Robots. That’s the beauty of the world now, there are a million other things to watch at any time of the day, that you don’t have to. 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. 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.
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.
