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Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture

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I felt uncomfortable in some part of the film and rightly so because we should feel uncomfortable blaming victims for what happened," another user @lalakaris wrote.

At the start of the film, there is a warning that notes the film is for those 18 years and older dueto "violent content, rape, sexual material" as well as themes of substance abuse. Butsome feel a clearer trigger warning, with more detail and in a larger font, would have been helpful. The media is only one piece. We need have these conversations in our communities, in our families, in the classroom."Women in pain: How 'House of the Dragon' traded the sexual violence of 'Thrones' for birth trauma How graphic rape scenes can trigger trauma With that being said, a three-minute scene showing a gang rape is not mandatoryto get the message across, Jeglic says. They could have shown less, and we could still talk about how the rapeaffected her and her life… It is likely that the same results of education can be obtained without showing the graphic details of a sexually violent act, but rather how it impacted the individual." However, intent is important. If the goal of including a graphic rape scene is to educate,safety precautions, like consulting with psychologists or coordinating with anti-sexual violence organizations,are necessary to avoid "using 'education' as a license to include graphic portrayals," Riddle says. Do we need graphic rape scenes to spread awareness?

But even with good intentions, experts questioned the need formultiple, disturbing rapescenes lasting approximately three minutes total. Simply watching an act of sexual violence onscreen can be enough to "trigger" neurologicaltrauma responses, research has shown.Kunis' latest movie garnered widespread support for its sobering depiction ofrape trauma, which Knoll wrote based on herownexperience. However, critics questioned the necessity of not one, but three graphicrape scenes. Karyn Riddle, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,researches the effects of viewing violent media. After watching the film herself, she says the scenes"did not seem gratuitous."

We know graphic violence captures people's attentions. They cause strong emotional reactions," Riddle says.However, "the storylines do not have to be graphic to get their point across. It's not required that a rape scene be graphic to learn a positive lesson."Seeing somebody who has gone through something traumatic – and how that has impacted their life–can make it more personal," Jeglic says. "Because when you see how it affectssomebody, it allows you to humanize them, and then the problem becomes more real." Unlike some of the criticized moments from HBO's "Game of Thrones," Ani's sexual assault is a pivotal plot point,as she learns toprocessyears of suppressed trauma. Knoll, whoexecutive produced the movie and enlisted the assistance of Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) for the scenes, said the intention was to show it "was really bad," with no need to "minimize" her experience. The story was told from the perspective of Ani. We're not in the mind of the rapist, and only in the mind of her. Her suffering was very clear, and for me that made the scene less exploitative," Riddle says.

As the executive director of Rape Recovery Center, SonyaMartinez-Ortizechoes these concerns. "Scenes like this can trigger a trauma response … because your body system is noting there is aperceived threat or fear. Whether it's actual or perceived doesn't matter, because our body may respondas if it's an actual threat, and so people may experience a range of traumatic responses."

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