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Turned fucking Luther off

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fem2019 · 05/01/2019 22:16

Horrendous first episode. The scene on the bus was horrendous and all too plausible. Sick and tired of the women as victims drama drama trope. Like it doesn't happen EVERY fucking day. Absolutely SICK OF IT.

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Snapsnapsnap · 06/01/2019 07:56

Doesn't matter what else happens, I can't un-see the bit where a woman (me) is terrified and preyed on. It makes me angry and scared in real life and no amount of plot can make that worth watching.

floribunda18 · 06/01/2019 07:56

The first one I ever watched someone hid under a woman's bed and murdered her. I thought "Oh, FFS!" and resolved not to watch again. I thought I 'd give it a go again the other night, and a young woman was stabbed to death on a bus. Not for me.

Neurotrash · 06/01/2019 07:51

I can't stand that actor so don't watch it but it sounds like there should be a stand against this type of entertainment.

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fem2019 · 06/01/2019 01:04

As I commented on another thread, it is not about balance. There is no balance. The writers of Luther were obviously male. Because if they were female they would never have used the scene with some black clad antagonist crawling up the aisle to kill her. Because that is something that could happen to women. It was violence porn.

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CrispbuttyNo1 · 05/01/2019 23:57

I think it’s a shame for those of you who turned off after the first episode. It really wasn’t how you think.

fivepies · 05/01/2019 23:44

I convinced my DH to watch it - based on me having watched an earlier series. Regretted it though. I felt so angry and agreed with many PPs. I asked my DH how often he had to watch his deepest fears being played out in detail on TV (in the name of 'entertainment')? He said he hasn't but totally agreed when I explained how these story lines feel from a female perspective.
Needless to say, I won't be watching the rest of the series.

Pangur2 · 05/01/2019 23:37

I don't understand, the first few victims were men in this series.

DustyMaiden · 05/01/2019 23:32

To keep the balance there were a couple of female psychopaths.

CrispbuttyNo1 · 05/01/2019 23:31

And men were not the only perpetrators either.

CrispbuttyNo1 · 05/01/2019 23:30

You should have stuck with it. Women were not the only victims. It was a good series.

AdultHumanFemale · 05/01/2019 23:28

DP and I were just saying earlier how we wouldn't catch up with Luther as it just became too grim.

AnyFucker · 05/01/2019 23:23

Yup

I am completely sick of attractive young women getting raped, killed and laid out naked on slabs in the name of "entertainment"

I am done

Grace212 · 05/01/2019 23:22

yes, there's a lot of stuff I don't watch because of this. I don't care how good it is - I am so sick of violence against women being used as entertainment and there is a definite bias that means "woman as victim" is much more common.

Whisky2014 · 05/01/2019 23:22

Interesting. My parents and my aunt and uncle switched it off too. I've never seen it

stillathing · 05/01/2019 23:20

that is a really great way of putting it tallulah

i just don't find it fun any more

similarly i used to love Black Mirror before i felt like we were stuck in a perpetual episode of it

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 05/01/2019 22:25

It seems to me like a sort of cultural terrorism. A constant reminder that all the space belongs to men and that they can impose whatever they like on us so we should shut up and be grateful it isn't usually that bad

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