(Also, it looks like you deleted the other comment you left, but: Yes, the fact that I'm desensitized towards torture of one gender and not the other bothers me on a lot of levels. I feel like it suggests that I'm probably buying in to the social fallacy that only men can get tortured and 'handle' it; I also feel like I'm buying in to what I think of as 'sexy violence', where guys get beat up and tormented sort of as a matter of course in action films and the like, and my basic instinct is oh! poor thing! I wish I could aid that character / I like that character and don't want to see him hurt-- so I'm not saying it's good that I'm blase about it for one gender and not the other, either. I basically just feel uncomfortable with that part of myself all around, which is why I made the post in the first place. If that makes sense? Trying to sort of call myself out by identifying what's wrong with the way I do certain things.)
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