Word: rapists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, that training is thorough. Sullivan and Patrolwoman Barbara A. Blaney need detective skills only when they are investigating sexual crimes, but they have taken courses in searching crime scenes, taking statements, forensics, case preparation and rapist psychology...
...while the audience cheers them on. The racial overtones are frightening, particularly when you consider that the strongest market for this kind of movie is the South. The humanoids fulfill the rabid redneck vision of black men invading their towns and screwing their women. The movie is both a rapist's and a Klansman's fantasy. Many horror movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys on Our Women. It's funny how the American male, when he is not thinking about raping a female, is aggressively protecting...
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is an important movie--the first time I have ever seen the rapist in every male moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...
Finally, both porn and rape are based on a view that women are there for the taking, available to be possessed, "asking for it." A rapist may claim that he attacked a woman because she "asked for it"...by wearing tight jeans, a halter top, even going braless. Only when women are perceived as purely sexual creatures can their individual will be so ignored, and can the victim be blamed for the acts of the aggressor...
...American women-the gentle rape [Feb. 18]. I wish you had at least added that a woman daydreaming of such a forced sex act is in control of her fantasy, and therefore suffers no threat of actual danger. Not so in real life, no matter how "gentle" the rapist...