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Terrible, Misandric Canadian Film

posted 12 years ago by CanaDman
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If anyone can't find this film, perhaps someone came to their senses and destroyed all traces of it.

Canadian taxpayers actually had to foot the bill for this garbage in 1993, which nobody seemed to ask to have produced and promoted by the state broadcaster - CBC. At the time, the CBC was on a roll with male-bashing, namely: bad fathers, as a plot element. Think of the teenage girl freaking out and screaming when her boyfreind tried to kiss her goodnight at the door, with memories of her father doing that to her as a child (in Degrassi), or the daughter coming across her cheating father booking a holiday with another woman (Northwood). There are more examples to cite, but these stand out the most.

This is from the same CBC in which a reporter - purposely - lost his composure during the funeral of female victims of a shooting in Montreal in 1989, which was a criminal act by a madman, but has been since used to vilify all males and law abiding gun owners. That includes young boys, such as my 5-year old nephew, who will have to wear a white ribbon and stare at a dozen empty chairs on a stage this December, fallout from this syndrome of male guilt over the shooting that still continues.

Films like this have been used to empower females. In addition to having your father arrested for spanking, with a claim of sexual abuse, as seen in this movie, you can throw your husband out of the house with an extra amount of police assistance for raising his voice at you, or if you are really annoyed by them, you can have your uncle or cousin charged with stalking you. Shed a few tears too to get you some sympathy... it really works.

Just read the columns of author Michael Coren... in Canada, apparently there isn't a shortage of real-life stories involving fathers versus social workers, police, and any other busybodies who choose to "err on the side of caution" whenever they get a whiff of abuse claims. May they get a taste of their own medicine.

Avoid this film, it will leave a bad taste in your mouth for years to come.

[–] alexbogue3889 12 years ago

It hasn't left a bad taste for Americans.

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[–] Erin-Leigh-14 10 years ago

it's possible that CBC "was on a roll with male-bashing" because of the amount of fodder coming out of the courtrooms with daughters, nieces, and cousins finally stepping forward around that time. i can only tell you my experience, but amongst my group of high school friends, there was only one of us who hadn't been sexually abused by a relative or friend of the family, and no, i wasn't the lucky one.

not all men are horrible monsters, and i never got the feeling that's what movies like this were trying to portray. i always got the feeling that they were trying to say, "if you've been in this situation, it's okay to tell someone. you may feel like nobody will believe you, but watch this - they end up believing this girl! they'll believe you, too." female empowerment? ummm... okay, possibly. but i think it would be more accurate to say victim empowerment.

i can think of way more movies that *aren't* male-bashing than that are, and even in ones like this, all men aren't portrayed as evil. Christina's husband is a caring, loving husband who helps with the kids and the cooking. there's the guy who works with the prosecuting attorney who is a decent man. the fact that one man did something horrible, and is the crux of the movie, is hardly enough for me to consider this a male-bashing movie.

having been raped by my uncle, i can say i was incredibly relieved that everyone "erred on the side of caution" and that i wasn't victimized an extra time by the judicial system.

[–] sc_taylor 9 years ago

Shame on you! How dare you. This is a powerful film about a truly dreadful crime and the film makers are to be commended. I am appalled that you seem to see this as an attack on men. It is nothing of the sort.

[–] gasmaskproductionsbooks 9 years ago

Films like this have been used to empower females. In addition to having your father arrested for spanking, with a claim of sexual abuse, as seen in this movie, you can throw your husband out of the house with an extra amount of police assistance for raising his voice at you, or if you are really annoyed by them, you can have your uncle or cousin charged with stalking you. Shed a few tears too to get you some sympathy... it really works.

"Claim" of sexual abuse... Kelly didn't get her father arrested because he spanked her, it turned out at the end of the film that she really was being abused. It wasn't just a claim.

Female empowerment seems a much better option than giving possible child molesters the benefit of the doubt. Also, it mentioned that Kelly's MALE brother, Patrick, was caught up in the abuse as well, towards the end of the film. I don't think that this film was meant to be a female empowerment story, it was just a story of child abuse. Also, the doctor who examined Kelly and one of the detectives helping to arrest the father were both males in the film. It sure didn't portray them as bad or evil.

Also, what does anti-shooting on CBC have to do with a film about child abuse?

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