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Where they're going, on Jessica's suggestion, is death -- live. She pays a visit to the state prison's death row and persuades Dennis Casterline (Tim Daly), a convicted murderer and rapist, to permit live TV to witness his execution; in return, his four-year-old daughter will receive a share of revenues from the event. The network sets up the electric chair in an arena dubbed the Megadome, launches a huge publicity campaign and goes about converting this most grisly of affairs into prime-time entertainment. "The doctor wants to know how close you want to be," someone...
...them: men. It's a state of undeclared war, them hating us, men hating us no matter our age or who the hell we are . . ." Every male who makes an appearance in Oates' 328 pages of female-empowerment myth is a slimy, sweating, smelly brute, a rapist, a feeler, a hitter, a fascist. Here is a casual sample, describing a couple of apparently harmless guys on the street: "The two of them beefy big-bodied men with smallish heads, fleshy faces and restless eyes...
...kind of Cultural Revolution zealotry has led some rape-crisis hysterics on college campuses to post photographs of male students, selected entirely at random, and labeled POTENTIAL RAPIST. Some women who have not been raped refer to themselves as "potential survivors" -- a trope that takes American victim-wailing up to a higher octave. Asked by the Washington Post to define the "two kinds of people in the world," one contestant wrote, "Women and rapists." (What would the Washington Post have thought of a contestant who divided the world between "men and whores...
...butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would-be rapist in the parking lot of a bar. In fact, we can't get enough of warrior-woman flicks: Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. These are ladies who wouldn't slice anything off, one suspected, unless they meant to put it straight into...
...almost forgot the rapist who lives in a mansion with his four wives. Women to him are like baubles, merely another symbol of his wealth...