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elderly patient lotion "joke" = NOT funny


If the genders were reversed, and a feeble-looking, elderly woman is shown in a hospital bed, strongly telling a 40ish male nurse DO NOT apply lotion there (her vagina) - but the male nurse ignores her and replies, "Shhhh! You NEED it there," and did it anyway - that would be called sexual assault, elder abuse, etc. and no one would laugh at that.

Tired of this sort of gross-out, crotch-injuring "humor" at males' expense in movies like this. I knew Amy and Tina were feminazis but c'mon, the reverse sort of "comedy" showing men assaulting and injuring female genitalia would never be tolerated in Hollywood.

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i think the OP has a point. if the genders were reversed that "joke" would be seen as highly inappropriate. imagine an elderly female patient categorically stating she does not want a male nurse to apply lotion to her genitalia, and instead of that nurse allowing her to apply the lotion herself, which is what good practice would dictate, he goes ahead and applies the lotion, while making a joke of the patient's clear discomfort. if you touch someone without their consent it is an assault. guess what touching someone's genitalia when they are expressly asking you not to is?

it is true that genitals are not specifically referred to in that scene, but the inference is crystal clear.

i did not care for the latter scene where the sisters approached their male neighbour and stated making lewd remarks about his body and other sexually suggestive remarks either. that happens to women all the time, and has happened to me more times than i can remember. i'm just going about my business and a man/men make cat calls or propositioned me for sex. never found that funny when it happened to me, and it did not suddenly become amusing when the genders were reversed. i am a feminist and proud of it, but that kind of skewed "feminist" humour pisses me off.




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