Why We Fight About Rape Scenes

The never-ending debate about rape scenes and trigger warnings is about why art matters and who gets to decide what it’s worth.

You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun, etc. Photo by Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB on Shutterstock.

The only movie I ever walked out on was Kill Bill: Vol. 1, back in 2003. The problem began in the first act, during the monologue in which a nurse tells a man all the ways he is, and is not, allowed…