Did it ever occur that, as a writer for an online men’s magazine, I might actually be attempting to do a service by even bringing this matter up to my male audience? I could easily have ignored the scene entirely, but I actually felt it needed to be mentioned and discussed. But, of course, you appear to assume I’m some sort of ultrasexist/misogynist because making those kind of assumptions about people you don’t know anything about is a big part of what the Internet is all about. I really have seen very similar scenes to this in countless movies and, really, by comparison, I think it’s mild. Mainly because Bond and Galore actually are close to evenly matched, physically and mentally. That’s really not always the case.

It’s a very bad habit of people on the ‘net, rampant on political blogs which is probably why this note got me so worked up. I wish everyone would stop it but I think for a lot of people it’s easier to assume everyone who sees things even a little bit different from them is some kind of apologist for evil. I’ve had enough of it.

Nice attempt at whitewashing this scene. It still makes me sick to my stomach whenever I come across it.