Brief thoughts on the moral messages I got from Dollhouse

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WARNING: Show is very tiggery, my thoughts on it may be also.

Rape/slavery/sex slavery is sexy. And women enjoy it. And want it.

...but it's still wrong. Because.. it it just is.

Also, all women are whores. Yes, all of them.

But they can't help it. A nice man should come save them from themselves! Or maybe he shouldn't.

See also It depends on what you pay, which is much creepier now I've seen more than the first 2 episodes (I got stuck on episode 3 because it is simply bad, rather than "Has potential which is mostly wasted in skeeviness" like the rest of the show) and Working in the Dollhouse.

Comments

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Starting around episode... six? There's narrative continuity stuff that kept me watching through the end of the season, but YES, the show is all about pretty, sexy rape, with victims who are utterly helpless to resist, and who gave blanket consent years ago anyhow, so no biggie. The cumulative effect of the show wasn't good for me, either, because I was getting VERY twitchy by season end about anything anywhere that was a justification/prettification/denial of rape, and frankly, living in this society, I get hit with that too much to have a TV show use up all my buffer-space.

BTW, the few episodes where the victims do resist? Where the rape is acknowledged as rape? ARE EVEN WORSE. Most of the time the show ignores that all this is rape, but the few times they don't ignore it made me long for them to go back to them ignoring it.

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Yes, I finished the show and the plot did pick up considerably, and I managed to enjoy some of the clever ideas etc despite the ickiness. But ohh..was it icky.