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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8323758" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Marital Rape wasn't made illegal in all 50 states until 1993. Revenge of the Nerds and Sixteen Candles were both made in 1984.Just one year before, Deathstalker was made. A movie where sexual assault and outright rape are essentially used as a greeting between men and women. The -hero- of the movie sexually assaults multiple women and tries to rape a guy who has been magically transformed into a woman because he didn't realize there was a dude under the boobs. It's played off for comedy.Women knew what it was. It just wasn't -legally- or socially called rape or sexual assault 'til later. And any comments about it were largely ignored or shouted down by guys who didn't want to acknowledge that they had probably committed a sexual assault thinking it was totally normal relations.Heck. We still have dudes doing HORRIBLY RAPEY and misogynistic stuff in movies that get greenlit even though it's freaking obvious. Chris Pratt was recently in a movie where he woke up on a spaceship that would be sailing for the rest of his life and knew he was going to be alone, but he liked the look of a girl in a pod on the shelf so woke her up to condemn her to never see her friends or family again so he could have a friend and potential romance partner.How -creepy- is that? How abjectly -terrible- is that as a concept? "I'm going to doom you to a long and dull life on a starship with no company but me 'cause I thought you looked hot and you're gonna be my wife, eventually!" And then she -does- fall in love with him because... Hollywood, I guess?Women knew it was rape when Lewis Skolnick pretended to be Betty's beau so he could bang her. Men just didn't care.</blockquote>

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