Backlash: Misogyny In The Digital Age (2022)

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Synopsis

Dir: Lea Clermont-Dion, Guylaine Maroist. French/English-language Documentary. A look at the effects of online misogyny and hatred directed at women.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing; pervasive use of vulgar expressions, sexual, developmental, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Frequent references to and descriptions of misogyny, hate speech, threats, sexual harassment, sexual and domestic abuse, sexual assault, and suicide - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - no blood, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of a beheading - blood and some detail
• Infrequent references to sexual activity - some detail; infrequent depictions of a sexual aid - breast nudity

Thematic elements

• Gender-based violence
• The internet and hate speech
• Feminism

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, disturbing content and mature subject matter including pervasive references to sexual assault, suicide, and violence

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