'12 Years A Slave' Review

I saw this film for the first time, last night and was completely blown away. The movie had received spectacular reviews (97% on Rotten Tomatoes), swept award season (Including Best Picture at the Oscars), and launched the career of Best Supporting Actress winner, Lupita Nyong'o.

The movie is simply…profound. There is no award worthy of this film. Not that the film is not worthy of awards of course it is. There is simply no award worthy of this film. It was devastatingly complicated and beautiful. I truly saw the humanity of the enslaved verus a film meant to coddle the imagination and guilt. it was also a painful film in ways that I cannot always fully articulate with words. I felt that pain in my spirit, my skin, my bones, my heart, my existence. I still feel it. 

Time Magazine compares "rape culture" cries to witch hunt

http://time.com/30545/its-time-to-end-rape-culture-hysteria/

I only briefly read through some of this but I have some reservations. I think that people first need to acknowledge where the "rape culture" comes from and why it is so prevalent in America versus other nations. Rape is only ONE form of violence that has been passed down in the American culture.

Violence, in general, is typically much more prevalent in America than anywhere else in the world. That's why you have cities like Detroit and Chicago among "the world's most dangerous places" next to countries like Sudan and other Third World, war-torn nations and they are both only a CITY in the U.S. This country was founded on violence and bloodshed and the rape culture was developed and passed down from slavery and years (actually CENTURIES) of sexual oppression and silence. 

Rape culture, TODAY, still has ties to actual rape and sexual victimization in the 19th and 20th century and that's why it won't go away. Everyone wants to put a band-aid on it and cover it up instead of getting down to the truth. They are asking to eliminate the talk of "rape culture" and not the actual crime and history of it.