Be very careful. By turning women into all loving, all powerful super-goddesses you are turning them into abstracts. Everyone knows fear.
Perhaps there's a level of empathy that I as a white male never needed to have. I'd like to think that I'd have tried my damndest to save her. But I"m pretty far removed from the reality of violence. I haven't seen a fight in years, let alone been in one. Who knows how you'll react when put up against the reality of violence?
28 weeks later showed a scene where a woman put her life at risk to rescue a child that wasn't even hers. Her husband fled when zombies attacked, rather than try to fight and save her life. There's an interesting parallel; would you risk your own life to save someone elses, if there was very little to no chance of actually saving the person and getting both of you killed? A rabid crowd aren't that much different from rage fueled zombies.
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Date: 2007-05-23 04:51 pm (UTC)Perhaps there's a level of empathy that I as a white male never needed to have. I'd like to think that I'd have tried my damndest to save her. But I"m pretty far removed from the reality of violence. I haven't seen a fight in years, let alone been in one. Who knows how you'll react when put up against the reality of violence?
28 weeks later showed a scene where a woman put her life at risk to rescue a child that wasn't even hers. Her husband fled when zombies attacked, rather than try to fight and save her life. There's an interesting parallel; would you risk your own life to save someone elses, if there was very little to no chance of actually saving the person and getting both of you killed? A rabid crowd aren't that much different from rage fueled zombies.