[ SECRET POST #2250 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2250 ⌋

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

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[Stan Lee]


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[Pusher II]


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[nigahiga]


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[code lyoko evolution]


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10. [SPOILERS for Homestuck]



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11. [SPOILERS for Kuroko no Basket]



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12. [WARNING for rape]



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13. [WARNING for abuse]



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14. [WARNING for rape]

[SNSD/Girls' Generation]


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15. [WARNING for dub-con]



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16. [WARNING for sexual assault]

[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I just don't see that there is a distinct place where the line can be drawn. What some people will react to with, 'obviously he is getting off on this rape scene!', other people will not have that impression at all. In terms of these books, they are written in a very different way than most romance/wankfodder kind of writing out there, fanfic or published. So the idea of GRRM being somehow encouraging rape is ALL based in personal interpretation of the scenes in the books, and is not supported by the canon victims' reactions to the abuses depicted. So you can pick apart the language in the writing of the scene, but you can't actually say that GRRM intended the scenes to be a rape fantasy or wish-fulfillment. And the way people react to the books make it seem like the see it on the same level as things like 50 Shades or Twilight, where the abusive/rape relationship is clearly glorified.

I never got the feeling he was enjoying the early scenes between Drogo and Dany, for example, because Dany was the viewpoint character and it was obvious that she did not enjoy their early sexual interactions. It was also in-canon pointed out that she was extremely young - her own brother (who is totally okay with selling her into sex slaver) is skeptical because of her age... there are no narrative judgments of her later feelings for him; while she believes the feelings are true love or whatever, it isn't really supported and I personally felt like they were a result of something like Stockholm syndrome, and that if he had lived longer she would have grown to hate him.

Maybe I should point out that most of my comment is thinking about this relationship in particular, since it is the only dubious consent that is portrayed explicitly in the novels (as far as I've read - I haven't completed the books yet). I think that most people who discuss rape in the series are primarily referring to Dany and Drogo, since the other times rape is discussed in the text they are much more negatively portrayed and are not actual scenes that the reader goes through. For example you have Cersei and Robert, which is never actually described in the text but is very strongly implied to be an arranged/forced marriage between Cersei and a man she has never loved. But that relationship is also NEVER idealized, he even openly strikes her. As far as Lollys goes, the other characters are disparaging toward her but I never got the impression that GRRM was trying to diminish her experience. Really I felt her situation was horrifically depressing, and the fact that other characters seemed to think she should just get over it really bothered me. But I didn't think GRRM was dismissing her. SO it's obviously one of the YMMV issues, and the way the same groups of people will bitch about this subject from opposite sides is way more problematic to me than the idea that some people out there might be seeing GRRM as enjoying scenes that are clearly portrayed as being traumatic to the characters that are in them.