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alix on her role (lea) and female rage.

“It was a really hard time in my life personally, and I found out that I had been cast as this grieving older sister who was determined to go and save one of the other brothers that she felt was still alive. “And I was so lucky to be working with such an emotionally intelligent studio in Round8, and there were such wonderfully compassionate people at Liquid Violet who did the localisation, and Mark Healy, who was my English voice director, and Choi Ji-Won, who was the game director, and I was there and I was like, ‘Guys, I just need to go and cry.’ “And they let me,” Alix continued. “And there were times where I had so much rage that I think got poured into the character, but instead of instead of trying to temper it down, which quite often, you know, in particular, male directors might be uncomfortable with female rage, but they allowed me to pour all of it into this character. “And I was really reflecting on that, on the importance of giving space to everything that the actor and the artist shows up with. I think it's a really important quality for directors and development teams to work with, you know, and then you steer the actor in the right direction, of course. But I was just very moved by how kind they were to me. It made a real difference to my journey as Lea.”

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Spotify has some great women-themed playlists today! I've been listening to "Women of Rock," and am now properly full of fem-rage.

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People are being stupid about Elliot Rodgers on Facebook

One lovely human suggested that legalizing sex work would have solved the problem. Here's my response.

Firstly, I don't know what studies you were reading about re: pedophilia and child pornography, but here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ab.20250/abstract;jsessionid=112FA6C6B2F768483068F66F2DF4DAAF.f01t01 is one that does a longitudinal study and finds that watching child pornography was correlated with increased the liklihood of recidivist behavior among registered pedophiles. Furthermore, a "quick fix" among most addicts is correlated with increased chance of relapse. Therefore, I think the basis of your argument - that if Elliot Rodger had had easy access to sex workers, that his need for sex would have been dampened to the point that he would not have gone and murdered people - is inherently flawed. It's also important to note, as this http://www.isha.org.il/eng/docs/P180/ article points out, that legalizing sex work does not lead to a "platform of learning, education, and mutual respect." It leads to increased sex trafficking, street prostitution, child prostitution, and has not been shown to actually protect the workers. Neither does it increase women's health or make the choice to enter the work somehow "better." For the vast majority of women, it is a survival strategy, not a profession. Legalizing it is a gift to pimps and johns, the "sex businessmen," so to speak. As you said, the political system won't change the issue anytime soon, so what makes you think that the US would do a better job creating a safe system for sex workers? How is it possible that this "solution" is better one than increasing education in our grade schools to emphasize the necessity of consent, that sex is not a right handed down by the patriarchy to young men who are so desperately frustrated by their lack of it? How is it that there are a "million other people" whose problems are more severe than the systematic oppression of half of the population? To be honest, this kind of argument detracts from the actual problem that [my friend] and so many others (some of whom in the posts we linked to) are outlining. It does the same thing as people who are saying that we need better systems to support and treat the mentally ill in this country. We do need to do that. And we need a better way to support sex workers, but the problem at hand is neither of those things. The problem is that our male children are being taught that they have an absolute right to sex, love, and pleasure, and our female children are being taught that if they say no, they forfeit their right to life.

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