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Amy wrote:
>Why all the uproar about the buggery scene in PULP FICTION (many people have
>mentioned it)?  Yes, it was unpleasant but (I must climb upon the feminist
>soapbox for a brief moment) how many scenes of rape/violence against women
>are depicted each year in many, many films with little or no comment.
> However, when a man is raped in a movie, it's the source of much
discussion.
 
I thought there was a *lot* of controversy about the rape scene in Thelma &
Louise and the rape scenes in Blue Velvet (i.e. dorothy being an allegoical
Everywoman instead of particular character) i have not seen any controversy (
until now) about this moment in Pulp Fiction....
 
---james goldschmidt