My mother is literally worse than my father, but of course movies and tv shows love their cliches and never show reality for what it is.
Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
I hate writer jesus christ ffs.
Edit: typo
A few examples that came to mind that others didn’t list:
Psycho and its reboot or whatever. Possibly THE example.
Mindhunter definitely touches on abusive mothers.
And I don’t want to spoil it, but dear God watch The Bear and prepare to be fucking broken.
So reality is only your lived experience, not that of others?
Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)
Strange to make a gender distinction here. I know people love their categories, but I’m curious to know how your outlook focused on gender rather than other characteristics like race or nationality
Animal Kingdom has an abusive mother. Pretty good criminal series. Reminded me of Sons of Anarchy.
As others have pointed out, your premise is incorrect. Women are often portrayed as abusers, just not usually through physical abuse (much like real life).
I think the sexual stereotypes are is that men hit And women tend to abuse through mental anguish.
Mental anguish is harder to portray on a screen than someone beating the fuck out of you.
This little theory, I’ve said you know ignores the fact that neglect is the most common type of abuse.
The four types of abuse are physical, sexual, mental and neglect. The vast majority of abuse that happens to children is neglect. It’s been a long time since I looked at the numbers, but I’m pretty sure that physical is The least common type of abuse
Mental anguish is harder to portray on a screen than someone beating the fuck out of you.
And when it is portrayed, it’s not as easy to notice. If Everybody Loves Raymond’s Dad started punching his daughter in law everybody would call that abuse, but there are still some people who don’t realize how abusive Ray’s mom actually was.
Absolutely!
Not really answering the question but if you’re looking for movies with an abusive mom, there are more than a few! (especially horror.) Off the top of my head:
Carrie is the classic, hereditary is a new classic. Braindead (dead alive) is a classic splatter horror.
Non horror: I Tonya, black swan, Mommie Dearest, Precious, Beau is afraid, Wild at Heart and maybe 8 mile?
Carrie reminded me of Misery. She’s not his mom, but she’s definitely abusive.
We Need to Talk About Kevin comes to mind.
You hit some of the first that came to mind. I’d also include Terms of Endearment, I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Postcards From the Edge… do Snow White and Cinderella count?
Yeah, I think the underlying message in a lot of disney is you’re better off with a dead mom than a live one.
Isn’t 8 mile just basically the story of Eminem? If so, yeah, that’s an abusive mom.
Unsure, haven’t uhhh, actually seen the movie. But was more going off what I vaguely remember from the trailers etc.
Watch Carrie
If you really want to see fucked up, watch Sybil
Along with all the other examples listed here:
The Bear
Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
No, but depending on circumstances and the work the abuser is willing to put into changing themself and making things as right as they can, forgiveness can be earned.
Because women are wonderful. Look it up.
Like Marine Le Pen? Park Geun-hye? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Lauren Bobert?
lol don’t forget Anna Paulina Luna
I wouldn’t say never and when they are people have harder time noticing because it requires pretty high emotional intelligence to understand that shit ain’t right.
Woman’s abuse just looks different. It is verbal and behavioral generally speaking. Woman can say something to the child and nobody in the room will notice. The kid sure knew what’s up tho.
Malcom in the middle did it
Idk disney kinda does this sometimes but usally with adootive/step mothers. I get it though, its much less common and even the ways abusive mothers and fathers are portrayed is heavily influenced by our cultural understanding of gender.
Have you ever heard of Marisa Coulter from His Dark Materials? Just to add to all the other examples people have given
