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To feel shocked about this on a comedy programme?

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girlfriend44 · 18/07/2024 21:32

Regarding Butterflies the comedy series written by Carla Lane in the late 70s.

It's on I player at the moment. I watched an episode and she was talking to herself loudly about being bored, and feeling taken for granted in her marriage
She expressed quite loudly that she wanted to be raped.

Should a woman ever write that into a script or was it more acceptable to say that back then?
I cannot imagine it in a script today.

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girlfriend44 · 18/07/2024 21:38

Bayleaftree63 · 18/07/2024 21:35

Times have changed. People are offended by everything now a days. Granted that sentence would be bad taste today, but it was the 70s!

I'm not generally offended but I find a woman.saying she wants to be raped al ittle unsettling. A woman wrote it too.
Does it matter which year it was? Rape is a serious issue.

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Bayleaftree63 · 18/07/2024 21:35

Times have changed. People are offended by everything now a days. Granted that sentence would be bad taste today, but it was the 70s!

cupcaske123 · 18/07/2024 21:35

It is shocking and I remember it. I doubt that's what Lane meant.

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