[ SECRET POST #3649 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3649 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a woman and a proud feminist and I have zero qualms with rape being used in fiction as a plot point. I am totally fine with the potential rape storyline in Firefly and think it would have been scary and interesting.

I think it's boggling that people have this reaction that any rape in fiction is bad (except when it's Game of Thrones, then it's ~realistic~). There's obviously exploitative rape, and rape that's done poorly and in an extremely gross way, but it's amazing how people are okay with murder and torture but somehow decide to jump on the moral high-horse in regards to rape. Rape can be part of dark, serious storylines, just like any other terrible event.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that rape can be used in stories but the proposed storyline for Inara sounded really bad and stupid and not like a good idea. I think it's bad to have bad storylines, and I think using rape in really bad stupid storylines is particularly bad.

There are shades of grey here, in my opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

I think people are just reacting to the overall trend of the fact that rape is often used as a writing tactic to create a dark storyline that is almost always specifically targeted at women. It's the type of trope that can be boring or even offensive depending on how it's written.

That being said, I'm also not against rape in storytelling but I think writers should sometimes take a moment to think about if they're just doing something that has been done 5 million times before and if the plot is going to revolve around a female character, why? Basically I want writers to ask themselves if they really need that rape scene, if it really furthers the plot in a significant manner or if it's something they could live without.

And Game of Thrones gets called out for it's excessive rape all the time, I like Game of Thrones but I definitely think they could have had a few less rape scenes then they did.