Article Poor Things and Misogynistic Dreams: How Abusers Sexually Mistreat Disabled Women
Article Poor Things and Misogynistic Dreams: How Abusers Sexually Mistreat Disabled Women
https://womensenews.org/2024/03/poor-things-and-misogynistic-dreams-how-abusers-sexually-mistreat-disabled-women/
Quote:A 2020 study found that 28% of cases of girls who were sexually trafficked had an intellectual disability compared to the 1-3% of national prevalence. The more severe physical impairment and low cognitive abilities, the higher the risks.
Women with intellectual delays also face myriad personal and socio-environmental barriers in their sexual lives, such as difficulties with lack of sexual experience and negative sexual experiences with nondisabled individuals.
This sobering reality is the backdrop to one of the most critically lauded films of the year, Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos. Based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, earned 11 Oscar nominations and four wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Women's eNews, March 11 2024.
https://womensenews.org/2024/03/poor-things-and-misogynistic-dreams-how-abusers-sexually-mistreat-disabled-women/
Quote:A 2020 study found that 28% of cases of girls who were sexually trafficked had an intellectual disability compared to the 1-3% of national prevalence. The more severe physical impairment and low cognitive abilities, the higher the risks.
Women with intellectual delays also face myriad personal and socio-environmental barriers in their sexual lives, such as difficulties with lack of sexual experience and negative sexual experiences with nondisabled individuals.
This sobering reality is the backdrop to one of the most critically lauded films of the year, Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos. Based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, earned 11 Oscar nominations and four wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
I haven't seen Poor Things or read the book, but hearing the premise, that a man resurrected the body of his deceased wife using the brain of their newborn child, icked me out so badly. I do like a lot of Yorgos Lanthimos' films though. I think he does satire really well, so I was thinking about giving it a chance. Then I heard about the prostitution and how the whole situation is framed as empowering, and that really sealed it for me. Nope. Hard pass.
YesYourNigel
Nov 14 2024, 8:44 AM #3I don't trust any male director to depict even regular sex scenes without an undercurrent of his personal porn fantasies (which include getting off to making the female actors do nude and uncomfortable scenes), let alone anything to do with rape and sexual exploitation. And "artsy" directors seem to be the worst of the bunch because they can get away with anything under the guise of "art", no matter how self-serving (and, being men, esp men with any social clout, they still think androcentrism and male horniness/violence are a given, and very deep and poetic).
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