We end Women-In-Horror month with a look at Izzy Lee’s powerful, violent short LEGITIMATE, which was born (pun intended) from U.S. Representative Todd Akin’s comment regarding pregnancy – and how women have a way to “shut that whole thing down” in cases of “legitimate rape”. Like millions of others, Lee was disgusted by the comment, and decided – uniquely – to craft her response in the form of a film. LEGITIMATE runs less than six minutes, but that’s enough to provide some appropriately shocking imagery that broadly drives its point home. Lee begins the film with Akin’s quote in stark
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