It plays into an agenda that's closer to the Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter
Not that I know anything about Rob's political views, but the show's never struck me as ultraconservative in that way.
blaming the victim than the noirish perspective that assumes evil lurking in the hearts of all.
I do understand how it could be seen that way, though, which is why I hope it doesn't turn out that
all
the rapes are fake. If TBTN has actually been
orchestrating
actual rapes to further their agenda, however...that's just sick.
I have no reason to believe the TBTN women are all going to end up on the up and up, because no one in Neptune ever does. I don't know how, but I expect some of them will have something that sucked, somewhere along the line, and probably in service of what they saw as the greater good (and that greater good probably involves taking down the Greeks).
This. I think I'ma let Cindy analyze the show for me.
If TBTN has actually been orchestrating actual rapes to further their agenda, however...that's just sick.
I can't imagine it being anything this blatant. I don't know what it will be, but they've come off too self-righteous to be completely righteous.
Plus, Take Back the Night Rallies in the day are DUM.
Might I point out that I invoked Tawana Brawley last week?
t /preens
This article/blog post is...rather unique:
[link]
W
T
F
?!?
The author starts off making sense (in that he/she has an apparent point, even if I don't agree with it) and then apparently took a hit of something or forgot to take a hit of something and just went off into crackville.
I think it would be deliciously twisted and perfect for the morally grey universe of noir. Bad things being done with good intentions.
Totally.
Unless the girls turn out *not* to have been raped at all, but only had their heads shaved to make it appear they'd been raped. That I could see. Fucked up as it would be.
That's exactly what I was wondering...I mean, if you've been roofied and don't remember anything...
Plus, Take Back the Night Rallies in the day are DUM.
Hah!
But yeah, I think it would be interesting if some of teh rapes were real and some were not actually rapes, just the women trying to get more attention for the actual rapes. OTOH, that would be so many kinds of fucked up and really piss me off, putting that kind of shit into a Take Back The Night thing that I might have to hate Rob, so I'm hoping there's more to it. I mean...if that was the way to go, I'd want him to have given it some kind of fake name, and not use an actual group/event thing that has good stuff. So I'm hoping for (because, interesting and noir!) but also hoping against.
The author starts off making sense (in that he/she has an apparent point, even if I don't agree with it) and then apparently took a hit of something or forgot to take a hit of something and just went off into crackville.
It's so stream-of-consciousness, as if it were written in some sort of daze.
And HA! I just saw that the author commented on the post with a link to our reaming of it on TWoP.
The cops are all bumbling and on the take
Not all of them. There seem to be some decent ones still on the force.
