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In addition to perhaps not being right...


... some of the arguments I've read from people over here concerning that notorious scene with Callie also make NO SENSE.

For example, not saying either would be right either, but I hear people say that the main reason The Stranger has assaulted intimately her was because if a man came along and annoyed him he would simply blow him away or hit him etc but that "You can't" (implying as if somehow it is "physically impossible" which of course it isn't) "do that to a woman" and so this was what happened.

But in addition to not being correct as in also politically correct, and not calming the situation down as in not even trying (note - it's a sensitive issue! And that's a fact.), such sentiment and statement does not make sense.

Plus, besides real life of course, there have been plenty of films where female characters, not saying it was right either albeit its not as sensitive an issue even in theory to some people, were not err sexually assaulted or violated in any way but they were beaten, shot, killed, hurt physically in some or other ways.

So this argument that he did it to her because "It was impossible to do anything else bad and hurtful to her as a woman" but that "same things were POSSIBLE to do to men" is also NON - SENSICAL. AND PEOPLE PRESENT THAT AS A "VALID ARGUMENT" and a "CONVINCING EXPLANATION". Terrific! Now we get it. Very intellectual, deep and thought provoking movie as well on a deeply philosophical level too. Michel Foucalt, Friedrich Nietsczhe, Jean Paul Sartre etc would approve.

But seriously... (I'm addition to basic aspects and morals of course. And modern Internet hype too.)

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