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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever been to Gruyère?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have you ever been to Gruyère?

????

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger

Fourth sentence.

It's really interesting!

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Spreading disinformstion! I love my dead internet soup!

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Ah fuck, I wanted this to not be disinfo. Oh well

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Not true that Giger never revealed such an experience on a talk show, or not true that his art is all about expressing that experience?

To be fair, it'd have to be a pretty liberal talk show for someone to discuss such an experience at all.

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago

I just want to see the German talk show where this was said. Sounds fun.

[–] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't he base alien on the experience of women being raped and wanted men to feel a similar fear?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago

I think the bases of the alien was written by Dan O'Bannon, so the sexual assault theme was built into the concept. The notion of sexual consent was only in the 1970s entering the discussion of morality. There was a lot of controversy about whether the sexual assault of a married woman by her husband should be regarded as a crime, and in redder regions of the US, it's still a question.

So yes, stories meant to examine sexual assault, whether predators who use sexual lures or brood parasites and the body horror they invoke were running through the creative veins of Hollywood.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

No idea the best way to post the image, but here's the full image from the thumbnail

Trying to upload it directly here

Here's a link if that doesn't work: Erotomechanics VI (Mia und Judith, first state), 1979, HR Giger.