...so basically I feel that the movie was trying to say that if there were only two females left on the planet, all the men would turn into rapists? Those guys in the army scene were acting like complete animals!
1958 - ...Forever. Michael Jackson. A true legend.
West, who did not seem to be a rapist himself, but rather a man obsessed with more abstract forms of power and control, used the sexuality of the men under his command to motivate them. Prior to his promise of finding them women, his men were becoming suicidal. He encouraged base and violent desires in his soldiers in order to displace their despair.
shareNo, the film is not sexist, because it did not portray all the male characters as sexist, nor did it defend those male characters who were sexists.
It merely dramatized that a lot of people are sexists, and when given the opportunity and temptation, their sexism will rear its butt-ugly head.
But not "all the men" were depicted as rapists. Remember: Jim, Mark, Jim's father, Frank, and the New Age SGT Farrell.
I think that MAJ West was a sexist because he did not see the females as deserving of equal consideration of their wishes. He ONLY deemed the males as being worthy of consideration. He thought of the soldiers as "his boys", and he felt a duty to look out for their wants and desires. And he even made Jim an offer to have a go at the ladies, as well. For MAJ West, it was truly "bro's before ho's".
But he did not seem to be the type to go in and join in on the rape, directly, though. As a college-educated man, he knew that there was something wrong with his plan. He tried to rationalize it as a way to do his duty to his men, and also as a way to do his duty to humanity. But he was holding back, himself--because he knew it was wrong.
(Heck, maybe MAJ West was both sexist and gay.)
And yet, in the end, all he could think was to condemn Jim for killing "his boys" in defense of those females. The thought was unfathomable for the major. The notion of treating a woman as an equal, or of protecting a woman from the base desires of a man, just didn't register with the guy.
Now, THAT'S sexist.
U are the sexist, not the plot writer.
He just wanted to show that it's not just deseased people that can act like that, that any body can be like that too. That we're attacking each other dayly.
Rape was just used as a way to show that. Nothing about sex.
He just wanted to show that it's not just deseased people that can act like that, that any body can be like that too.
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SO SICK OF SEXIST RACIST BS PC CRAP. IF YOU GET OFFENDED JUST DIE.
HELP AGGRAVATE THE STATUS QUO, VOTE AGAINST EVERY INCUMBENT YOU SEE ON A BALLOT.
Notice how throughout the film the women have their sht together and the men are barely hanging on?
shareThe film would be sexist if it was condoning rape. It was not, in any way, doing that. I think people forget the meanings of words and try to bend them to mean what they want them to mean. The terminology the op was going for was 'misandrist'.
"Sexism" is gender neutral, you can be sexist against men or women.
Sexism, like racism, falls on the side that has the power.
In this story, the military men had the power at that encampment, meaning they were the ones guilty of sexism.
In most of the world, men have the power...men have the upper hand, power wise.
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Well, sadly...if an apocalyptic situation like that was occurring, men probably would turn into "animals". I mean, come on...quite possibly, the only two non-infected females within the entire country, were at a military base full of dudes. After dealing with zombies (the infected) on a daily basis, along with a complete breakdown in society, it is safe to say that the soldier's morals and standards had dissipated. Law and order was completely gone. Definitely not a safe situation for two females to be in.
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