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redrockbutch · 4 months

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> recommended a horror movie about abuse > ask them if the victims or the abuser are the monster > they don’t understand > pull out an illustrated diagram explaining the horror genre’s tendency to have abuse turn the victims into literal inhuman monsters that are the source of 99% of the jumpscares and threat to the protagonists while abusers are allowed to remain human and their horror scenes tend to be one of slow dawning horror instead of actively terrorizing the protagonists and how much it sucks as an abuse victim to be literally dehumanized and vilified in that way > they laugh and say “It's a good horror story about abuse” > watch it > victims of abuse are monsters

#EVERY FUCKING TIME #cassidy.txt #somebody said this to me about the outlast games. you know the one where you LITERALLY NEVER MEET THE ABUSERS?#if you say any variation of 'but the abusers were the REAL monsters...' you're part of the problem lmao #if that was obvious you wouldn't have to insist how obvious it was #who is used to activate immediate instinctual disgust? The freaky monster or The Guy? be serious #i also don't care if the monster is redeemed a little bit at the end!#'well they're a horrifying hellbeast that makes me want to throw up but they aren't ALL evil!' die #horror

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