[ SECRET POST #2721 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2721 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Look, in any medium where most of the creators (in this case, producers, directors, camerapeople, screenwriters, etc.) are men, the content is going to have a lot of men communicating with men. Violence and coercion are part of the language men are taught to use with everyone, but especially with each other. (Women use it differently. I'm not arguing that they don't use it at all.) Western society has a relatively low official tolerance for real adults getting into physical fights. Men duelling and brawling just doesn't get the social acceptance it used to enjoy. But fiction still treats it like a really normal, intrinsic-to-showing-what-you're-made-of thing. It's communication. It's language. The presence of violence is part of signalling to guys that any given movie has stuff in it that it's okay for them to care about and dissect minutely. It's saying "this man has character and heroism. He can suffer without freaking out. You're justified in looking up to him. He can keep fighting even when his body wants to get the hell out of this situation." And conversely, "this other man isn't tough at all. Judge him for it." So yes - watching men exemplify traits that other men are taught to respect them for having is fanservice. For men. It's wish fulfillment. It's competence porn. It's watching some badass be everything men are told they ought to be, and pull it off with style, and reap the rewards. The fact that (some) women look at it from their different point of view and find it sexy is important and worth talking about, but it isn't why men getting beaten bloody is a staple of movies. Even movies that overall are a big "fuck you" to women.