![]() ![]() These same legislative bodies have worked toward making abortion so difficult that women have to travel extensive distances and wait multiple days for the procedure. In the modern U.S., multiple efforts are implemented by male dominated legislative groups to limit contraception access. Even in the United States of the 20 th century, the constant social pressure has been for women to be home makers, to limit their access to contraceptives, and to make abortion as difficult as possible. The hell Knoth creates in Temple Gate is an exaggerated reality, but we can’t pretend as if history, and reality, haven’t produced circumstances in which women have been forced to be sexual slaves and child bearers for men. The ability to choose, to have independence apart from men, is important. Which is what it comes down to for women in reality and in the world of Outlast 2. In the Loutermilch plotline, Jessica’s overbearing and potentially abusive father, in combination with Loutermilch’s sexual advances, leaves Jessica with no good choices. In both the Knoth plotline and Loutermilch plotline, the inability for women to have independence from men is portrayed negatively – the consequence of Knoth’s dominance of his cult’s women is the spread of syphilis, multiple pregnancies, and countless abortions. The circumstances Jessica found herself in eventually led to her death, which was framed as a suicide. This is implied by the monster that chases Blake (composed of grabbing hands and slurping tongues), the direct conduct between the priest and Jessica (including a too-familiar brush of her cheek), and audio of Loutermilch implying Jessica was flirty and a temptation. She’s unable to find help at her Catholic school because her priest, Loutermilch, is sexually abusing her. In that second plotline, notes imply that Jessica is being abused by her father at home. The violence against women in the Knoth plotline is not glorified, and it occurs while a second plotline involving Blake and his friend Jessica while they were children. The priest, Loutermilch, has an uncomfortable approach to girls. Around this chained woman are buckets of urine and feces, making the area one of the most disgusting scenes in the game. This could have been either a place where Knoth had sex with her or killed her baby the moment it was born (although the previous interpretation seems more likely). There comes a scene in which Blake Langermann encounters a woman chained to a bed with chairs set around her. While being either overweight or in debt isn’t a knock against a person’s character, Knoth isn’t a glorified James Bond sexually conquering women, either. Sullivan Knoth, as the primary sexual predator of Outlast 2, is not glorified in his portrayal. The notes discovered about his background reveal that he was sinking in debt before forming his cult, and that he was only able to establish his group, Temple Gate, because of the financial funding of a woman. ![]() ![]() The villain of Outlast 2 who has sex with the members of his cult is portrayed as a heavily obese individual with a violent attitude toward women. Films instead typically glorify the male in some way, portraying him as a sexual conqueror. Misogyny involves the exploitation of women, but portrayals of misogyny in various media rarely demonstrate the destructive effects of such behavior. The game implies the priest himself sexually abused her, although it’s never made entirely explicit. His friendship with Jessica composes the second underlying plot line in which Jessica is killed by a priest. Solomon Knoth, cult leader.īlake Langermann, the protagonist, is driven to find his wife and suffers from long standing guilt regarding his childhood friend, Jessica. It’s important to separate the protagonist from the villain when interpreting Outlast 2. In the first plot line of Outlast 2, cameraman Blake Langermann encounters repeated depictions of abused women in extremely foul, disgusting settings. In considering Outlast 2, Red Barrels Studio did indeed take an extremely harsh position toward the women included in the game. ![]()
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