tigressunlimited:

tabularasae:

I want to write about last week’s episode of Louie because most of the reviews and analyses I’ve read of the episode have failed to capture, in my opinion, the overall point of the episode and its failures. While I think the episode was a daring (though not particularly brave, and we’ll take a…

Based on your review, I think that having the fake role-reversal, woman’s-attempt-at-sexual-assault-against-Louis scene delivered right after Louis successfully exposes an actual sexist, double-standard almost completely erases the success of that exposure and critique. I don’t think you explicitly made that point, but that seems to be the case. Because when you link the two events together, the fact that Louis has critiqued sexism is immediately overshadowed. It becomes this thing where, regardless, a man has power to enact those double standards and not be criticized for that. In the end, he “gets the girl” so to speak. Meanwhile the woman is made fun of and sexual assault -both against men and against women- is, as you said, distorted for shock-value rather than appropriately subverted. 

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