if you say you find it hot when bucky gets tortured in captain america: the winter soldier just know that i deeply hate you. and that me and my dissertation are coming for you.

DEPICTIONS OF TORTURE IN FICTIONAL POPULAR CULTURE FOSTERS OVEREXPOSURE AND LEADS TO DESENSITISATION AND NORMALISATION OF SUCH TECHNIQUES

the tone of this thread is tongue in cheek but genuinely, if we’re at a point where people (namely teenagers) are comfortable using social media platforms to state that they find a character in cinema/tv being tortured attractive, we have a genuine problem with desensitisation.

if you can look at that scene (or any torture/“enhanced interrogation”/detainee abuse in fictional media) and have a reaction that is neutral/interested/attracted, you have been overexposed to sanitised depictions of that behaviour and it no longer means what it should to you.