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fandomsecrets2012-12-26 06:34 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-12-26 06:34 pm
[ SECRET POST #2185 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2185 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #312.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Trigger warning: Mentions of rape
(Anonymous) 2012-12-27 03:02 am (UTC)(link)There's at least three parts to this, you know, and none of them have much to do with the Delhi gang-rape victim.
1) Fandom is predominantly female writers--rape is a very real threat to most of us. Not an immediate kind of threat, but the kind of threat that makes you travel in groups and stay in at night, and keep your headphones in your ears but your music off when riding public transit alone. It's not weird that it shows up in the fiction we produce--everyone writes about what they're scared of. Rape, and the threat of it, is a part of who we are. Demanding that it not be portrayed in our stories is like demanding that no one ever die in our stories.
2) Reenacting traumatizing events is a pretty common coping strategy. Ever wonder why so many rape fics end with the rape being discovered by an outside party, explicitly acknowledged as rape, and the victim being rescued, avenged and recovering their sexuality with fabulous healing cock sex? Take a few seconds to work it out. Consult the comments section on a news article involving a rape case if you're having trouble.
3) Rape pretty much defines traditional views on women's sexuality (aka, that she doesn't/shouldn't have one and is there as a vessel for male sexuality) and is an extreme display of dominance/submission and sadism/masochism. Unsurprisingly, that flips the sexy switch in a lot of people's heads.
There you go. Three reasons, all personal to the individual writer and reader, and all of them consequences of rape culture or social constructs. Sure you can hunt down every person who writes or reads rape fic to tell them that they're sick because real people get raped too, but that seems a bit like hunting down anyone who writes character death and calling them violent maniacs because people die in real life, and how dare they write about it.
Take a moment to blame rapists (and society) for rape. It's much healthier.
Re: Trigger warning: Mentions of rape
(Anonymous) 2012-12-27 03:52 am (UTC)(link)Re: Trigger warning: Mentions of rape
(Anonymous) 2012-12-27 10:13 am (UTC)(link)Re: Trigger warning: Mentions of rape
(Anonymous) 2012-12-27 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)