[ SECRET POST #3181 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3181 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ceebeegee]

The show dealt with the rape head-on but the official response is still pretty fucked-up. If you read the WP page on Luke and Laura, it says: "However, the writers decided to have the characters look back on the incident as a seduction instead of a rape because the pairing resonated with the audience. "From that point on, we played [Luke's] regret and his total devastation," Geary said. "That's a story nobody wants to tell—that the rapist's life is as devastated as the person he rapes. His great love and regret and guilt are what caught the audience so off guard." Notice whose "total devastation" is not being discussed? Won't someone please think of the rapists?!?! VOMIT. The whole article talks about LUKE"S reaction to the rape HE ACTIVELY CHOSE TO DO and hardly at all about Laura's. I love Geary's "that's a story nobody wants to tell." Yeah, you're so BRAVE to focus on the rapist and not on the victim.

Also check out the comments on the YouTube clips of this scene--some of them are still very victim-blame-y.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree wholeheartedly that making Laura's rape all about Luke's manpain is fucking gross. However, I don't think it's fair to blame Geary for that. In that interview he's talking about his character's feelings and his role in the storyline. He's not talking about how Laura feels because he doesn't play Laura. He's finding a way to understand and sympathize with Luke because that's what actors do.

Geary's not perfect, not by a long shot, but he's always been open about how twisted and damaged Luke is. Really, I think he understands the character much better than the writers do.

[ceebeegee]

I didn't read the whole interview (just that excerpt quoted on WP) so you definitely have a point--as an actor myself, yes, I know it is not the job of the actor to see the whole picture but rather to identify with his/her character and find a way to justify that. HELLO GH DIRECTOR AND WRITER(S) FEEL FREE TO WEIGH IN HERE ON THE LARGER PICTURE OF HOW RAPE IS NOT JUST A PLOT DEVICE TO SHOW US MANPAIN.

That whole fucking WP article needs to be rewritten, it reads as though it were written 30 years ago. I'm sure Genie Francis must have done some interviews over That Incident, she should be quoted as well.