Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2012-11-10 09:08 am (UTC)

I find when I watch the Bond films I have to almost handwave the Bond girl scenes, they are so sexist and awful. I hate it. Thing is I never feel that going into the shower etc is meant to be non consensual, the woman gives Bond the nod at some point earlier, as she does in Skyfall, and also I assume we are being shown a gratuitous shower scene, but it doesn't mean it's the next time the woman has seen Bond, most of us would at least look a bit shocked if Daniel Craig just walked into our shower, and she is totally expecting him.

I do hate the Bond girl trope, it was the one bit of this film I hated, the poor woman was enduring being raped by Bardem's character, and then just gets used by Bond, and well her fate is just awful along with that vile sexist joke Bond says, and why didn't he punch them up before the thing happened to her?? Ugh. Still I totally loved the film, I just tried not to get caught up in that nasty bit.

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