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Schwarzenegger’s misogyny

Alternet has an article on Schwarzenegger which contains an extensive excerpt from a recent interview with him in Entertainment Weekly. This gives the lie to his claim that allegations of misogyny are based on a misinterpretation of his comments:

But nothing in T3 bears Schwarzenegger’s creative stamp more than his epic tussle with the Terminatrix, a battle that begins in a bathroom. The sequence was made longer and more elaborate thanks to the actor’s largess … and his singular imagination.
‘As we were rehearsing, I saw this toilet bowl,’ says Schwarzenegger, an impish smile crossing his face. ‘How many times do you get away with this … to take a woman, grab her upside down, and bury her face in a toilet bowl? I wanted to have something floating in there,’ he adds. Apparently, he was vetoed. ‘They thought it was my typical Schwarzenegger overboard,’ he says. ‘The thing is, you can do it, because in the end, I didn’t do it to a woman … she’s a machine! We could get away with it without being crucified by who-knows-what group.’ (Note to California’s Democratic strategists: The soccer-mom set is now yours for the taking!)