Before the #MeToo movement, most depictions of sexual assault, its trials, and tribulations, were either inaccurate or triggering, and victims were oftentimes denied all agency from narratives surrounding their experiences. The last few years, however, have seen an increase in more nuanced, tender, and compassionate storytelling of sexual assault. The entertainment space has become a mosaic of personal accounts and memoirs of sexuality, just as the #MeToo movement had been for women demanding justice. From shows like I May Destroy You to The Morning Show, here are some ways Hollywood television and streaming platforms have reconfigured its treatment of women, sex and sexual abuse, post #MeToo. The word “rape” does not appear once in the film and like in I May Destroy You, the scene is never shown.

Source: The Hindu July 08, 2021 09:17 UTC