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I can go on a rant (and in fact, I have multiple times) about how Iron Man and Batman have taught an entire generation of moviegoers about incredibly shitty corporate behavior.
Instead of showing people the moral and just thing to do in company settings, people see the crap Batman or Ironman pulls (Iron Man literally killing a board member who ended up being a villain for example, or batman forcing his board and strong arming them out of the company).
These are shown as heroic actions by the protagonist, but really would be the stuff of moral disaster in the real world.
I've more or less accepted that most fiction is about doing amoral things that the author personally thinks is cool. But the authors understanding of morality in these situations is pretty bad in most cases, possibly because the author has little experience of corporate ethics (or in this topic, crazy large sexual harems and whatnot)
This rings true, and I would like to extend it to more general behavior. Many of these tropes are common in superhero films: unquestionably heroic good guys pitted vs irrationally evil bad guys, society is inherently corrupt and only the heroes can improve it (by personal intervention), a contrarian weakling nearly dooms everyone by disagreeing with the hero, but is ultimately shamed/killed... etc.
At the risk of sounding paranoid, they sound vaguely fascist in tone. I wonder if the last decade of movies has pushed society in that direction, or vice-versa.
I ask about affection in sex and you post this?
Which parts of her essay do you believe are factually or logically incorrect?
"Most porn is about watching women pretend to enjoy sex acts that are unpleasant to them. It doesn't have to be this way, but it is."