So he’s merely only a slightly more cunning sexist asshole… as is true, again, of the show overall. Oh, and of course we’re meant to understand that Shane, having lost his pussy back to his best friend, now that Rick has returned, was only coming to the aid of the woman who was beaten because he needs a new receptacle for his penis. Like this: the only things that appear to make Rick the upstanding sheriff hero so far appear to be the fact that he doesn’t call women bitches and smack them around. And no, having the women lament the loss of those things doesn’t cut it, because it’s the overall tenor of the drama and how it is presented to us that is the problem. But what we’re seeing here isn’t really looking at that from the perspectives of people who are used to things being a little more civilized: the attitude is, instead, as if they barely notice their lives have changed at all, apart from the lack of coffeemakers and washing machines. I can’t deny that it’s true that come the apocalypse, whatever form it takes, many of the problems of our society will remain, and some of them will be amplified: Stupid, violent men will still be stupid and violent, and indeed they will have many more opportunties to indulge, unchecked, their idiocy and their anger. See, this is my major problem, so far, with The Walking Dead. And if any of the women understood that, as at least some of them probably would, given the realities of women’s lives, there’s no chance for them to express that, either. And yet I’m not really sensing that there was any irony intended in that situation: I don’t get that anyone involved gets that there’s a vicious cycle kind of thing going on there, that violence in response to violence isn’t gonna help things. Then Shane, the asshole sheriff’s deputy, gets to be the “hero” in that scenario, coming in to beat the shit out of the wife abuser. (Merle’s idiot brother is no fun, either.) Then there’s the other guy who appears to hold that any woman who dares to talk back to him is an “uppity smart-mouth bitch,” and doesn’t hesitate to smack his wife around in front of other people… although, granted, those other people were just other bitches, not anyone who really matters. Merle the angry white racist idiot handcuffed on the roof: he really likes using the words bitch and pussy a lot, don’t he? Sawing his own hand off is too good for him, frankly. But unless something changes dramatically by then - and I don’t see room for that happening - I’m done with it.įirst of all, the show seems a little too enamored of depicting domestic violence and basic general misogyny as just sorta the way things are, and what else should we expect from humanity, anyway. Since there’s only a few episodes left in its short first season, I’ll stick with it. But it’s been easy to put off The Walking Dead, because so far it’s worse than utterly unenthralling: it’s infuriating. Sometimes stuff I need to watch gets put off not by choice, but out of a lack of less than 47 hours in each day. This is last Sunday’s episode I’m talking about here.
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