Status Updates From Scream with Me: Horror Film...

“In [the previous films], the male malefactor is deliberate and malicious toward the women they torment. Robert (Thorn) by contrast, is uxorious - lying to Kathy (his wife) because he genuinely believes it will be best for her. By extension, the film warns that any man thinking he is doing right for his wife may do violence to her simply by denying her agency, knowledge, and choice.

I miss school so much that I’m starting a mini class for myself in reading this book, watching the movies it discusses, and engaging with articles about the concepts and the movies. #nerdalert

This book makes me want to watch the movies along with each chapter. Very intriguing so far!

Chapter 3 discusses The Stepford Wives (1975) and the history of the Equal Rights Amendment. Special attention is called to the parallel of the robotic automatons that replaced the women of Stepford and the modern social media phenomenon of tradwife influencers.

Fuck Phyllis Schlafly btw 🖕🖕🖕

kinda baby’s first feminism….and literally not mention of women of color.

“Perhaps [what is] more important… than it’s ability to speak to victims and survivors of domestic violence is that this film enabled men and women who had not lived with this demon to grasp some portion of what it might be like to be imprisoned by a sadistic torturer in your own home [and] with your own child.

“In 1972 and 1973… there were 14,000 complaints of wife battery in the family courts system in New York City alone. The reported figure is estimated to be approximately ten percent of the true total.
Almost none of these 140,000 suspected instances were successfully prosecuted… The legal system routinely dismissed cases or ruled that the husband was within his rights to do whatever act of violence to his wife.