Which in itself I'm sure contributes to my reaction to it, as it's yet another way in which I do not have the proper context to understand the vid.
That's a good point. I recognized many of the fandoms included, but by no means all of them. Which begs the question - do you need to know every fandom of a multifandom vid to "get" its message? I don't know that I have an answer for that.
even if someone finds it hot, there's really nothing necessarily wrong with that since it's fictional characters and not part of a wider serious social issue (i.e. violence against women or other oppressed groups).
Yeah, I can see how we were both circling that point. I think my stance is - violence is a tool in media. It can be used to show pain and suffering, it can be used to show consequences of previous action, it can be used in the context of poverty or war or athletics. Context is important. But by and large, the fetishization of male-directed violence is less "problematic", less worrying, than the fetishization of female-directed violence.
it was like a soap opera but with fighting and NO PRETENCE TOWARD SANITY. I loved it. I was totally in it for Triple H and Stephanie McMahon to RULE THE WORLD.
Ahahahaha, right there with ya. I was in it for DX (the awesome, back-in-the-day, potty-mouthed version) and ECW, which I was raised on, being from Philadelphia. Blood and violence does not quite bother me.
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That's a good point. I recognized many of the fandoms included, but by no means all of them. Which begs the question - do you need to know every fandom of a multifandom vid to "get" its message? I don't know that I have an answer for that.
even if someone finds it hot, there's really nothing necessarily wrong with that since it's fictional characters and not part of a wider serious social issue (i.e. violence against women or other oppressed groups).
Yeah, I can see how we were both circling that point. I think my stance is - violence is a tool in media. It can be used to show pain and suffering, it can be used to show consequences of previous action, it can be used in the context of poverty or war or athletics. Context is important. But by and large, the fetishization of male-directed violence is less "problematic", less worrying, than the fetishization of female-directed violence.
it was like a soap opera but with fighting and NO PRETENCE TOWARD SANITY. I loved it. I was totally in it for Triple H and Stephanie McMahon to RULE THE WORLD.
Ahahahaha, right there with ya. I was in it for DX (the awesome, back-in-the-day, potty-mouthed version) and ECW, which I was raised on, being from Philadelphia. Blood and violence does not quite bother me.