[ClearCase_guy]

The movie "Watchmen", from the graphic novel "Watchmen", reimagines America with (mostly) normal people taking on the role of superheroes to fight urban crime, starting around 1940. One of the superheroes is a woman who uses the name “The Silhouette” and who dresses in black as a bit of a femme fatale.

In the movie, during the V-J Day celebration, the nurse in Times Square is in the street, very happy, and out of nowhere, The Silhouette appears, grabs the nurse, bends her back and kisses her. The camera flashes, and the two kissing women become immortalized. And just then, an oblivious Sailor saunters on by looking for someone to celebrate with. But no one notices that guy and he just passes on.

I suppose the journalist would not consider this movie scene to be rape. It’s probably a consciousness-raising exercise is semiotic transference of the cultural gestalt between artistic mediums.

[Yardstick]

Yep, liberals are masters of selective outrage.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Also, in that movie, SS and the Nurse ended up being lovers (and eventually murdered). But, you know, taking a real person and turning her into a lesbian murder victim is completely okay.