Dear Editor of TIME Magazine: I will never touch another copy of your
magazine. Richard Corliss' review of Observe and Report says
that a rape scene in the motion picture is funny. "The scene achieves
what few American movies even attempt: to pinpoint the grim compromise, the
desperation, that can attend the sex act. Don't call it love; don't call it
grand; but whatever it is, don't stop. That minute or so is the
finest thing in Observe and Report, and if it doesn't
strike you as funny-peculiar, you may as well stop reading now." Does the image of a woman being raped in
her own vomit turn you on? Can you actually see yourself laughing with
your daughter or your wife sitting in a theater watching a young woman being
raped? Do you not know that one in four women are raped in their
lifetimes? You are sitting in the dark laughing at a woman being raped when the
woman sitting in front of you might be a rape victim. Pass the popcorn. Corliss and his editor should be fired.
TIME/CNN magazine is a fascist, anti woman, pro date rape rag. People should
cancel their subscriptions. High school libraries should refuse to shelve the
magazine. TIME/CNN advertisers should be made aware of what they are buying.
The First Amendment does not protect the advocacy of violence. It is difficult to pick up a newspaper or
a magazine or even sit in a doctor's waiting room without being blindsided by
violence against women. The news has become porno-violence. Oprah started
this and Jerry Springer has caused our evening newscast to fill our homes with
porn we don't want or need. The judge porn courtroom shows, the Nancy
Graceless screaming for vengeance over dead wives and children is also porn.
The Sunday morning "gotcha" porn that used to be public affairs broadcasting
is now just so much shouting. Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich are public
affairs programming? When did we concede that there could no longer be
quiet, thoughtful life? Date rape is comedy and we may very well allow college professors and
students to carry guns; our desire for porno-violence has entered the classroom
and must always be close so we can be excited by how near death might be. My
husband was sitting in a doctor's waiting room a few days ago with the
television blaring news of rape and kidnapping while children looked up at the
ever present television. How healthy is television in a medical setting?
Why not broadcast the ER every Friday night? No pesky storyline, just the
blood and gunshots and the car accidents. And the date rapes.
