[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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

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Comments

TW: rape

[(Anonymous)]

A gif set about the media "coddling" convicted rapists is going around tumblr, and it's scaring me but not because I "get" it. It scares me because I couldn't see the coddling. Everyone else thinks a news article saying that the rapists had had bright futures before they were convicted is the article's way of pitying them for a pesky little thing like being a rapist getting in the way of the bright future they deserve.

Well, now that so many people have pointed that way of looking at it out, I understand, but originally, it never crossed my mind that the articles were trying to show pity. I thought the point about the bright futures was expressing shame on them and pointing out that just because someone is successful and popular doesn't make them above committing a horrible crime. You know, in a dispelling of the often-used dismissal of rape allegations, "He couldn't have done it because I know him and he's such a great guy!"

But now I know I'm naive and delusional as always. I want to be mad, but I'm secretly afraid of what other true intentions I'm missing.

Re: TW: rape

[feotakahari]

Who says YOU'RE the one missing something? This sounds entirely like the kind of crap people say when they want everyone else to be as fervently hateful as they are--"they said something that sounds vaguely sympathetic to these people, so of course they must be siding with these people!" (Not that convicted rapists are a group I particularly want to encourage mercy for, but there's a point past which hatred ceases to be productive.)

Re: TW: rape

[(Anonymous)]

Depends. Did you actually watch and listen to these news clips or did you just see the gif sets or texts and base your interpretation on that? Because the words alone could definitely be read like you interpreted it, but I think if you actually listen to the way they said it...it was all pretty gross imo.

Also I don't think it's a matter of being "naive" or "delusional" at all. Maybe more about cultural awareness and interpreting tone? Idk, I don't think it's necessarily bad that you missed that interpretation though.

[(Anonymous)]

I never really saw it as "coddling." I just thought they were expressing regret that a decent human being could have existed and instead the world got stuck with this piece of shit. Though I will agree with the critics' point that the media spends entirely too much time focused on that aspect of the situation and not enough sympathizing with the victim.

Re: TW: rape

[darkmanifest]

There's a difference between bemoaning the loss of their potential because they chose to do something horrible to another person and threw their human decency away, and bemoaning the loss of their potential because they got caught. The media can walk a very fine line depending on how they phrase things.