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Not a very female friendly carnival

posted 10 years ago by twofornero
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I don't know, I was left with a bad taste in my mouth when the songs ended.

Tamara deserves Hell, because she's too trusting when it comes to guys who seem sweet to her? She dies because she's being abused and still isn't 100 percent about flooring the gas pedal and leaving the guy behind; then she dies again because she's 'stupid' enough to trust The Scorpion. I just didn't like the way it seems like blaming the victim for her suffering. Domestic abuse is psychological as well as physical, not everyone is able to just get away from their abuser.

Then there's Merrywood who's a greedy crook, most likely deserving of Hell, but the fact that she gets stripped and whipped?

John, of course, gets sent to Heaven even though suicide's a sin. He's the one with a proper sob story. Lucifer's probably just angling to break the rules and stir up trouble, but still. Most of the main performers are guys as well. I guess it all just feels very much like a show written by men.

[–] matt-baen 10 years ago

These things bothered me too. I'm not sure that the ancient Greek Aesop's Fables map on very well onto the Judeo-Christian notion of Hell, even one that looks like a goth costume ball.

The greedy woman should have been a CEO of an Enron-like corporation rather than a thief living in a trailer. And her punishment was weirdly sexualized and prolonged.

The other woman doesn't match the frog and the scorpion very well because she tried to leave the guy. In any case, not deserving of damnation.

And the guy only committed suicide? I figured that he must have caused his son's death or something to deserve hell.

I only watched it because of Emilie Autumn and REPO. Really a misfire.

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[–] Brettski89 9 years ago

'I told him not to move'
Clearly the son was upset and ran away, not really then father fault.

She was stripped of all earthly possessions and punished by the flesh for her material greed.

She was given another chance to learn not to stay with someone who abuses her (I'm sure she had many chances in life as well) and didn't take it, she deserved to be left in hell (which is different than deserving to be abused)

Stop looking so much on gender and see the message.

[–] ave_roma2004 9 years ago

The victim is half of the problem, period. Period. End.

Merrywood was a useless thief. Point?

[–] Brettski89 9 years ago

God forbid women be shown less than perfect, but make a man a fool or flawed and not a cry is heard.