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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 1593802" data-attributes="member: 1231">Another example...During my OAC (Gr. 13) Law class, we watched a movie called The Verdict. In this movie, the main character, a male lawyer, is betrayed by a female colleague/love interest to the opposing side of the case he was working (and of course being the main character, his side was the good side). When he found out, he walked into the  restaurant where she was and punched her in the jaw. Now, my female law teacher tells the class that that would *never* happen if the movie was remade (The Verdict was made late 80s or early 90s I believe). I disagreed. I said it while what it depicted was wrong, I thought it was possible if the movie were remade they might leave it in. I told her that if the person in question were male, and he punched him in the jaw, it would be viewed as being OK, or even good. In this example of course, the problem is that a man hit a woman, which is viewed as completely off-limits in our society because of the very real problem of spousal abuse. However, what my teacher was suggesting, based on the evidence presented in The Verdict, was technically sexist. What he did was wrong under the law, whether he  had hit a man, a woman, a child a dog or an emu (sorry, that last one just sort of popped up, hehehe). But of course people who make movies never depict things that would be illegal in real life, right?</blockquote>