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"Are you saying anti-war protesters can't be women beaters?" can you really not see the argument being made? the original post was not saying no women got aid
by andrewcooke 13y ago
"Are you saying anti-war protesters can't be women beaters?"
can you really not see the argument being made? the original post was not saying no women got aids, or that no anti-war protesters are wife-beaters. it was arguing that there is a systematic bias.
i don't know if that's true or not, but wilfully misunderstanding or misrepresenting the argument doesn't help anyone.
- mhurron 13y agoIt's a non sequitur. It does not follow that because the anti-war protester that Jenny hooks up with beats her that the movie is trying to portray anti-war protesters as woman beaters. It can only be a shocking bias if it's so shocking for it to occur. It also doesn't fit the actual movie. The movie has Jenny making the same poor decisions over and over because that's what her background leads her to. Her personality leads her to protest the injustice of Vietnam, her view of normal gravitates her to the worst of the other protesters. Her personality leads her to being a liberated woman of the 70's, while at the same time drawing her into the culture of abuse and self-abuse that put her in the position to be one of the early contractors of HIV. There is no bias, this really happens. Jenny was a complex character that was controlled by her demons. The major characters of Forrest Gump are really portrayed quite realistically.