I thought about watching it but I never saw a single soul say anything about it until now so I skipped. And now I... jesus
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Replying to @JerryStillman
This is the scene they specifically cut from the TV adaptation because the showrunner just wouldn't do it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JerryStillman
I mean, she was right that the emotional impact of seeing the character tortured is gone in a visual medium like TV if the person we see isn't the actor we've gotten to know But also, what the fuck
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JerryStillman
Incidentally you could torture me for a billion years and never get me to stop insisting that's clearly some kink shit
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @JerryStillman
Yeah the passage from the book openly describes the virtual torture as including rape
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But anyway she said she just wasn't going to do a torture scene with a child actor no matter how much they cut it down, especially since there's no purpose to it in the book but shock value and the chance to do a brief evo psych lecture about female pain tolerance or whatever
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She put it more diplomatically than that in the interview but still
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Anyway That particular facet of the book is pretty TERFy in hindsight Like his justification for it ends up being the TERF talking point that "being a woman by definition entails suffering and oppression and saying you *want* to be a woman is a gross fetish"
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(And as always when accusing people of fetishizing there's more than a hint of projection)
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I'm sorry but this kind of evo psych thing is it bothersome because they try to frame their essentialism as a feminist statement and it always instantly backfires as such "It's feminist because it's saying female bodies are *designed* to feel pain"
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(The idea that women actually do have a higher pain tolerance than men has been debunked a bunch of times and, as edgelord trolls have pointed out, it isn't a very good feminist talking point "I guess that means women being in pain isn't that big a deal then")
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