Liberal Feminism ... discuss?

This is not a feminist movie. This is more an extreme-edge version of the "Woman's Picture", in which bad things happen to women in their personal lives. It would be more accurate to call them "femmesploitation".

While movies such as The Girl Next Door do often address serious problems women face, they do little in the way of empowerment. Instead, females are still helpless victims.

That being said, I appreciated this movie because despite its flaws, it is based on an actual true-crime case and says a lot about what happens when the darker side of human nature is given free rein. In the end, Meg wasn't a person; she was a thing. Anyone who makes the mistake of thinking humans are naturally compassionate should see it. Anyone who thinks women aren't also capable of terrible evil should also see it. It should also be noted that in the actual Sylvia Likens case (which this movie is based on), many adults also knew Sylvia was being mistreated and did nothing to help. One adult, when questioned, said she thought Sylvia was simply "getting what she deserved." In the 50's and 60's, nobody took a child's word over an adult's, especially not when other people (in this case Gertrude Banisewski's children) are willing to lie to back the adult up. Baniszewski might have gotten off with a much lighter sentence if one of her kids hadn't finally cracked on the stand during her trial.

Will liberal feminism always end witch brutality? I would say that in movies, on TV, as long as there is money to be made from women being brutalized, people being willing to pay to see it, then the answer is yes.

"I can see this topic coming up here."

Nah, just you bringing it up, because you're frightened of females having any kind of power or voice, so you claim that feminists are cruel ball-busters.


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