Destroy All Monsters: HBO’s WESTWORLD and the “Entertainment” of Sexual Violence

Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don’t want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot’s extended opening fake-out, a human man drags a robot female into a barn, presumably to rape her. He tells her, as he is doing so, that he has paid for this experience; he tells her, further, that he prefers that she fight him… and that he has paid for that too.

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