{"id":1722419,"date":"2022-11-03T03:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722419"},"modified":"2022-11-03T03:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:18:05","slug":"luckiest-girl-alive-proves-its-possible-to-discuss-rape-without-preaching-about-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/luckiest-girl-alive-proves-its-possible-to-discuss-rape-without-preaching-about-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Luckiest Girl Alive\u2019 Proves It\u2019s Possible To Discuss Rape Without Preaching About Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fluckiest-girl-alive-proves-its-possible-to-discuss-rape-without-preaching-about-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Netflix\u2019s October release, \u201cLuckiest Girl Alive,\u201d Mila Kunis brought to life a character from Jessica Knoll\u2019s 2015 book by the same name. The year after the book\u2019s release, we learned that it was based on Knoll\u2019s own life experiences, including when she was raped as a teenager. In interviews following this revelation, Knoll discussed the creative liberties taken with the movie, raising a particular issue with the depiction of her as a high schooler at the time of the Columbine massacre. In her case, there was no school shooting involved.<\/p>\n<p>The film is currently receiving mixed reviews, garnering a 43 percent approval rating from top critics on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/luckiest_girl_alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and a 6.4\/10 rating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4595186\/\">IM<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4595186\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4595186\/\">B<\/a>. But considering that topics such as rape and bullying are incredibly difficult to discuss, credit should be given to Knoll for not taking the easy way out to get ratings by making this a story about abortion, which just so happens to be a hot topic as we approach the upcoming midterm elections. Instead, Knoll made a clear statement about rape, murder, and the emotional pain of personal violations.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as the topic of abortion is central for many people, it\u2019s nearly impossible for this movie to avoid triggering thoughts on the topic \u2014 particularly with the thousands of commercials and conversations about the abortion debate: \u201cCandidate A wants to ban all abortions, <em>even in the cases of rape and incest<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inherent to this common campaign one-liner is an acceptance that rape is going to happen and we must instead deal with the aftermath. Such acceptance minimizes the actual action, which raises the question: Why do we talk so much about managing the consequences of rape while mostly ignoring the more important conversation about how to stop rape in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>To answer such a question requires an understanding of what makes rape wrong. To be clear, rape is not wrong because it is illegal, but rather, it is illegal because it is wrong. Rape is a violation of an individual\u2019s body, her (generally) own property. However, as the U.S. embraces the nihilist ideas of individual truth and simultaneously questions the validity of private property in a push toward socialism, it makes it nearly impossible to explain what makes rape such a severe violation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because we\u2019ve spent decades telling citizens \u2014 and teaching children \u2014 that right and wrong can be subjective and situational and that it\u2019s unfair when someone has something that you want and can\u2019t have. When these ideas have become mainstream, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised when people are unable to think reasonably about whether the action they are about to engage in is morally right.<\/p>\n<p>In America today, teachers, politicians, and media routinely encourage citizens to define their \u201cown truth\u201d and focus on the contemporary concept of equity more than the American founders\u2019 idea of equality. The Declaration of Independence recognizes that while we are all different in areas such as height, weight, strength, intelligence, and coordination, we are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprising twist for Hollywood, Netflix&#8217;s new movie isn&#8217;t heavy-handed on abortion propaganda but shows why we should still discuss rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":1722422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}