Treatment of women in "Horns"

Come on, lets be fair here. There was only 1 good male in the movie too (Merida's dad). And there were a lot more men in the movie than women. So technically, it's more anti-male than it is anti-female.

It was kind of ridiculous how *beep* amazing everyone thought the dead girlfriend was but she was given no character traits other than good or nice or enjoys wearing shear clothing. Her character was a big blank space of nothing but almost every action the men make in the movie was about her.

Looks like someone learned a new word and wanted to try it out on the Internet.

How cute.




"Nobody wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli."

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I had no problem with how the women were portrayed because their portrayal wasn't that different from the men in the context of the film. The women weren't written with much complexity, they didn't have to be; same goes for the men. Every person in this story was either seen from the perspective and experience of someone else through Iggy's visions, influenced by Iggy's horns, or there to support someone else's story.

The bartender {who I thought may have been Iggy's childhood friend tragically grown up) wasn't a nymphomaniac, she just liked sex and had low self-esteem. A nymphomaniac has uncontrollable sex with everybody. She talked a lot, but wasn't shown humping everything that moved. She talked about how no one wanted to sleep with her or noticed her unless they were drunk. That doesn't mean she slept with a lot of guys; it meant she had low self-esteem. She was hardly an unstoppable slut. She didn't have that many scenes and didn't do much but talk. You're the one judging her. Lol

The nurse wasn't a slut. She and the doctor were influenced by Iggy's horns and their lustful impulses too over. They both were sexually frustrated. Interesting that you point out the nurse as being slutty, but not the doctor.

You didn't even consider the two cops sluts given their lustful feelings and actions. Iggy's mother, the female reporters, the receptionist, the mother and child in the office were no different than the men in that they were only showing outrageous behavior as a direct result if Iggy's influence, just like all the men with dark secrets. Everyone were portrayed as equally effed up people with evil impulses. It wouldn't have worked if all the women were portrayed and good honest people. Lol

Merrin's character was more of an archetype because that's how everyone that loved her saw her. But when she confronted Iggy and Lee you could see the human being underneath. The human being that they both didn't want to see.

All I see in your post is "wah wah wahhhh"...

Just... stop it, stop it already. This feminism/patriarchy bs it's getting meme tier ridiculous.

It all felt VERY misogynistic to me.