rant: why is the media so full of phallocentric cliches?

[usuallytooshytochat]

just watched pan's labyrinth and had to storm out in disgust, slamming the door and shouting, 'damn that film', as the poor lost little girl's mother dies in childbirth. Why do film makers find it necessary to use women's suffering to 'make a point' or somthing clever?

I hate how women always 'represent' something - the motherland, childhood, love etc - why can't women be, you know, people?

Because womens' suffering is noble. Turn the argument on its head, and there you have it.

Do you think that it means that it is easier to ignore women's suffering - because it becomes art?

Men will always find it easy to ignore women's suffering.

But they feel it. They just don't understand it. Men will often ignore things they don't understand ... so you try to make them understand.

I don't even know who made the film. Maybe it was a woman? But it got oscars...

It just seems like a symptom of whats wrong with the media, I guess. and you're right Gursky - about us being people - not just objects to slap about on screen, to 'show' the brutality of men. Why not make a film about the sensitivity of men instead - then perhaps the brutality wouldn't keep getting repeated all the time.