A really imbalanced society where virtually every cultural law puts the woman at a disadvantage would give room for all sort of vices against the women folk
She’ll Be Right
Directed by Frances Pavletch and Carl Naus (2020)
Film Review
She’ll be Right is a film about New Zealand’s extremely high rate of sexual violence against women. In a recent survey at Otago University, more than 1/3 of female students reported incidents of sexual assault. The format consists of a succession of soundbites from #MeTooNZ activists interspersed with a variety of video clips illustrating the issues they raise.
The film highlights a number of factors contributing to New Zealand’s sexual assault epidemic, including
- New Zealand’s binge drinking culture
- the link between colonization and male privilege
- a culture that values men over women and teaches men sexual entitlement
- consent laws that place the burden on women to say no, rather than requiring men to seek consent
- an adversarial legal system that makes no pretense of trying to ascertain the factual basis of victim complaints (only 13% of rape…
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