Equality and liberation movements in whose footsteps the LGBT movement follows also had these moments of collective revulsion at being confronted with the stark contours of the injustice that always was there, but tacitly accepted and ignored as one of life's more unfortunate realities.
But while feelings of revulsion were justified, feelings of elation at his demise were not.
This sense of revulsion is present in many fantasy films, but often mixed with, and balanced by, a fascination, reverence and awe for women's creativity.
Our scale of revulsion is off.
What is very impressive about Raw is that absolutely everything about it is disquieting, not just the obvious moments of revulsion: there is no let up in the ambient background buzz of fear.
"Though I was consumed with dread of her and, I suppose, hate, and even finally a kind of revulsion, there was a desperate yearning underneath for the love she couldn't give me.
Watching him command the scenario I experienced a kind of revulsion that was also pity mixed with desire and envy.
This limitation led to a focus on the moral horror of shootings and avoided the visceral revulsion of bloodshed and, frankly, isn't that sufficient?
And because the entire Greek political establishment was, in effect, bullied into endorsing a doomed economic orthodoxy, the result of voter revulsion has been rising power for extremists.
For much of the 20th century, the chief object of Russian admiration and revulsion has been the United States the country that, with its combinations of fissiparous diversity and fierce patriotism, insularity and messianic sense of destiny, Russia arguably most resembles.
