Man, if you are not familiar with Hole, you need to familiarize yourself, ASAP. I recommend "Jennifer's Body" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0sbjPvin0U) and "Reasons to be Beautiful," which I unfortunately can't find a decent youtube video for. Okay, I also really like "Drag" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnF7_nje2mw), which is sort of different. Half the reason I love the video is the use of the song. I'm a Hole feminist, lol.
Oh, I totally agree. If there's no sense of physical danger I very, very often cannot get into a story at all. There is a certain kind of story that's a turn-off - the first person serial killer story that lovingly describes the deaths (I've never read this done well, only creepy and amateur. sometimes in 2nd person, as in, "you try to scream but...").
And what's interesting is that Supernatural has a huge female following. The depiction of violence against women is not a dealbreaker (that would be ridiculous), but when it becomes a theme, I definitely want to see that the creator is aware of what they're doing, and why. I do think that the whole "women's deaths filmed differently versus men's deaths" issue is interesting, and more of a problem. One of the things that one of the vid's creators said was something akin to "Daddy just falls down dead but Mommy burns on the ceiling."
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Oh, I totally agree. If there's no sense of physical danger I very, very often cannot get into a story at all. There is a certain kind of story that's a turn-off - the first person serial killer story that lovingly describes the deaths (I've never read this done well, only creepy and amateur. sometimes in 2nd person, as in, "you try to scream but...").
And what's interesting is that Supernatural has a huge female following. The depiction of violence against women is not a dealbreaker (that would be ridiculous), but when it becomes a theme, I definitely want to see that the creator is aware of what they're doing, and why. I do think that the whole "women's deaths filmed differently versus men's deaths" issue is interesting, and more of a problem. One of the things that one of the vid's creators said was something akin to "Daddy just falls down dead but Mommy burns on the ceiling."