Isn't Trapper's nickname a euphemism for rape. I think that could have been explored more in depth in the show. And Hawkeye's hookups aren't always the paragon of enthusiastic consent either.
CW for rape mention and sexual harassment
I haven't read the MASH book and I'm not sure how it is represented there but in the movie:
John McIntyre, Trapper John. Only man to find fulfillment in a Boston Maine Railway, in the- in the ladies can! Conductor opened the door, the girl looked out and yelled "Oh, he trapped me! Omigod, he trapped me!"
Unless I'm missing some historical context for the term that's used, "trapped" I don't know that this is rape. With that said, Trapper (and Hawkeye) in the film sexually harass Margaret, no two ways about it, so I can't say it would be OOC for movie Trapper. I'm not sure where the word "rape" came from in this instance but in my opinion, it's ambiguous. I'm totally open to being wrong if there is concrete evidence.
The incident is retconned out of the show, along with much of the cruelty they subject Margaret to - the primary target of public humiliation and shaming in the show Frank Burns (who in the movie is Margaret's only ally and exits the movie halfway through) and with how much character development Margaret gets, to me it seems a deliberate choice to reduce the volume and severity of abuse her movie counterpart endures. You would never catch movie HawkTrap helping Margaret sober up (Hot Lips and Empty Arms) or hide a body (Iron Guts Kelly). In Bombshells Trapper pointedly respects Margaret's "no", that's the crux of the whole episode. He also doesn't seem to enjoy or return her advances when she's blackout drunk in Hot Lips and Empty Arms.
Personally I don't see the value in this stuff being explored in the show. It's sort of addressed in Hepatitis when Margaret asks for "respect" and Hawkeye folds.
I'd actually argue there's more canonical proof from the show of Hawkeye not respecting consent than Trapper. They both kiss Margaret without her consent, Trapper in Rainbow Bridge and For the Good of the Outfit, Hawkeye in Dear Dad and There's Nothing Like a Nurse. I can't think of any more wrt to Trapper but Hawkeye kisses Frank once on the lips without his consent (twice if he caught him in For the Good of the Outfit - it's still sexual harassment even if he didn't), in Ceasefire Hawkeye seems to have promised himself romantically to multiple women, deceiving them so they'll sleep with him.
(I just wanna note that the Ceasefire example seems like a misstep - he's never actually shown misrepresenting himself that way, he's normally pretty up front with his casual hookups, and it never happens again. Seems like a bad subplot rather than something I'd call a recurring flaw)
I know we all love the 'pegging scene' in Carry on Hawkeye but making a big show of dropping your pants so your female coworker can give you a shot is harassment, he does it because he knows it'll make Margaret uncomfortable and he does the same thing again in Hepatitis when she calls him out.
But honestly I can't think of a single example other than Ceasefire where his hookups aren't enthusiastic on both sides. Like part of my problem with the Ceasefire example is that Margie Cutler is one of the women who thinks she'll be marrying Hawkeye after the war she flirts with both Trapper and Hawkeye in Requiem for a Lightweight, pimps out Hawkeye to her friend in Edwina like... girl you knew what this was??? So prior to that episode, she seemed to be pretty enthusiastic.
And honestly I push back pretty hard against the hookups being seen as unenthusiastic. There's plenty of nurses who happily make out with Trapper and I don't believe they're all unaware that he's married, he talks about it openly in OR - yeah that's infidelity and it's morally wrong but it doesn't mean there aren't two consenting adults.
Similarly I have a hard time believing that the nurses don't see Hawkeye with a different girl on his arm every week, they know what they're getting. One of the things I like a lot about early MASH is the sex is enjoyed by all - I value positive portrayals of female sexual pleasure in the 70s over fidelity to offscreen wives because of the historical context. Hollywood is still terrified of portraying cunnilingus and Hawkeye is constantly shaving for his dates. Could it be because he's very enthusiastically kissing women? I suppose. But knowing this show and Alan Alda in general, I dunno.
MASH did try to explore misogyny, it responded to early criticism and dropped some of flourishes it relied upon. That's good and bad imo. It's nice to not hear so many 'honeys' and 'sweethearts' in the OR, but I miss the casual fucking and sucking when it goes away.
We have Inga which gives us a very OOC Hawkeye imo being put in his place. Hepatitis which muddies about with some comparison of Hawkeye to Margaret's in-laws but is ultimately a sweet moment for Hawk-Margaret (really he comes to respect her over a longer period of time but I'll take it). Who Knew where Hawkeye whines about sleeping with Millie in lieu of acknowledging her interiority as though these are two entirely mutually exclusive things - a swing and miss imo. But then you have season 10's Cementing Relationships where Margaret spends the whole episode being sexually harassed and it's played completely for laughs - just because it isn't Hawkeye doing it anymore doesn't mean it's not wrong.
I do appreciate the attempts at addressing misogyny, even though I think it led to some big missteps, but I don't personally feel I missed out on anything by there not being an in-depth exploration of sex and consent. Sex and romance aren't really given much focus in general, so I don't think it would make sense to explore it very deeply.
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can't be bothered to find the og post rn ( think i might have deleted it bc it was a lowkey kind of spooky season joke. ) but in it i referenced a headcanon i had regarding raven's ability to manifest monsters subconsciously, as demonstrated in the t.een titans cartoon. i mentioned it in another post last night here but i'd like to expand on that. as the episode itself points out via robin, the monster / creature itself was not real. it was just the embodiment of raven's own fear. therefore, none of the characters were in any danger. this is where the hc part comes in. this still occasionally happens once raven's reached adulthood. though rarely, and very sporadically. ( for example, your muse walks in to find her asleep, and there's the fucking. creature from the black lagoon hanging out near her or smth. ) your muse isn't gonna get hurt. its chill, it's fine. she'll get it if you freak out though.
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The new movie mostly changed minor details, to make some details more coherent :p
Biggest changes are: Matilda is now only child (her father constantly forgets she's a girl), story is set in UK (it's mostly noticeable in how old the school looks and that children have uniforms), mrs. Honey's backstory was expanded and mrs. Phelps (the librarian) got bigger role of being Matilda's second mother figure (yes, Matilda ends up with two mothers in this one🤣🤣)
(Also, Wormwoods flee the country because father tried to swindle Mafia and not because of FBI, but Wormwood parents were mostly cut out of the movie due to time, so it's not that noticeable :p)
That kinda sucks that they got rid of her brother. I liked their toxic sibling dynamic. Plus I feel like shitty siblings aren't very common for some reason. And they were like... a really good depiction of it.
Actually it kinda sucks if we don't get much of Matilda's family/home life in general. I think the idea of showing that sometimes even your family can suck and you're allowed to find better people was great. (I mean, I guess you don't need all the context of the old movie, but still.)
I dunno, I guess it doesn't really matter, but still kinda sucks.
I think more Ms Honey backstory is cool (I'm gonna assume she's still related to Trunchbul. If not that will be the one choice I call stupid), giving the librarian a bigger role seems kinda weird. I guess they swapped that in instead of showing more of Matilda and her family.
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Current Watch List
Wednesdays is The Dragon King's Wife (webtoons)
Thursdays is The Golden Bachelor
Sundays is Krapopolis
I'm in a re-watch of Once Upon a Time
I saw Bottoms yesterday.
I just wanted to give a list of all the things I'm looking forward to. And the things that are in head at the moment. Bottoms was so good and funny and my literal dream of punching boys and making them bleed. Best movie I've seen all year no joke.
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