#rape mention

leosuncancermoonscorpiorising:

it’s insane to me when depp’s supporters defend him and a normal person will respond like “he said he wanted to rape her burnt corpse and a bunch of other horrible shit….” and they’ll be like “ sweetie joking or talking about something is not the same thing as actually doing it ✋ she’s the one who was physical!” and then still continue to make fancams of him and not only insist that he’s innocent but actually STAN him… even if he WASN’T an abuser (he is) you as a self-proclaimed “feminist” and/or “progressive” are still making heart-eyes at a man who joked about wanting to rape a woman’s burnt corpse?? are you fucking serious??

roach-works:

largishcat:

fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person

it’s important to acknowledge that this is a function of how the human brain works: fictional people are ‘stored’ the exact same way that real people are. the affection you feel for your blorbo comes from the same place and in the same way as the affection you feel for your friend– and because fictional characters are imaginary, they don’t tend to surprise, disappoint, or annoy us the way real people do, so we very often like them more. so fans of a show feel both real love for a character, and they feel more love for that character than they do for their fellow fans.

this is why you get fans who are protective of characters to the point of trying to defend them from one another, and in so doing they hurt real people to protect fake people. but it’s because they feel real love, real jealousy, real worry, they’re reacting from a place of intense and very understandable emotion. it’s also why online authors suffer so much at the hands of their fans: the fans feel a personal connection to the characters that they’ve come to know and love, while the author is a threat to those characters.

objectively, if i write about blorbo getting raped, no crime has been committed. no one has gotten hurt. blorbo is not real. no matter how detailed and realistic the story, it’s exactly as unreal as a simple three word phrase: blorbo gets raped. it’s completely hypothetical.

but the emotions of disgust, anger, fear, outrage, protectiveness that this concept elicits are very real to fellow blorbo enthusiasts. that’s THEIR guy, THEIR friend, and i’m the one putting him in danger, and i need to be attacked until i stop hurting him.

conversations about fan behavior need to keep emphasizing the issue that while the emotions a character inspires are extremely real, that character itselfis not real, and defense of a fake person that becomes an attack against a real person is not okay.

weaver-z:

Will Smith was just banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping a guy. Unrelated but here’s an IMDb list of the most famous actors and directors who signed the letter asking for the statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski, who is not banned from the Oscars, to be dropped.

alrightsnaps:

What gets me about the Johnny Depp situation is that for years, and especially since the #MeToo movement, every fucking MRA goes on and on about how everyone is innocent until proven guilty and how poor innocent men in positions of power can’t possibly have their careers and reputations ruined because some lying bitch wants money/attention etc……..and that’s exactly how Depp was treated when Amber Heard accused him of domestic abuse. As innocent until proven guilty. He was literally cast as the main antagonist in a big franchise movie series, regardless of the allegations against him. And when he lost the libel case against the Sun for calling him a wifebeater, when 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence against his ex wife were proven to have occurred (thus making him– you guessed it!– a fucking wifebeater)thenand only then was he fired from his job.

Except, of course that wasn’t enough for the abusive men fandom. Nope, all of a sudden the rich and powerful white man with a history of abusive behaviour is but an innocent little snowflake, victim of cancel culture and unjustly fired from his job because of a manipulative, lying bitch!

Becausenothing is ever enough for a patriarchal society when it comes to women getting abused. Unless a woman is the perfect textbook victim that only exist in their heads they will defend an abusive man within an inch of their lives instead. Because the only good woman is the one that keeps her mouth shut and takes it, otherwise she’s actually the one abusing the man who has literally talked of raping her dead body.

jvsons2:

For those of you that love to say Jason was a crybaby in AK, let’s talk!

Let me start with the fact that Jason was held in a disgusting, crime-ridden insane asylum for over a year. Not only was he in such an unsanitary place, but he was being held captive by the joker. Jason was beaten with numerous weapons, hung on a meat hook, shot, drugged to fight inmates, left to sit with untreated injuries, branded without any type of relief, fed rotten food, tied up, forced to take drugs, starved to the point where he became malnourished, and knowing that joker gave people free reign to torture him, possibly r@ped. During these numerous months of pure horror, Jason knew fully that Batman was not coming to save him (joker showed him a picture of him and Tim together), leading him to become brainwashed to hate his own father.

So yeah, I think Jason being brutally tortured and severely traumatized would give him the right to speak about what happened to him. Calling him a crybaby just shows that you don’t know his lore, but I guess that’s on you, and if you read this, now you know!

NEON TIGER Excerpt

Trigger Warning: Rape mention.

“Tell me something,” Tiger whispered.

Dragon waited a beat but when he didn’t continue, he asked, “Tell you what?”

Tiger sighed. “I don’t know. Something.”

Dragon was quiet for a long time before speaking again. 

“When Gerry… raped me… you know, I fought, in the beginning. Even knowing there was no way to stop him, the first few times I still tried. I didn’t realize it was exactly what he wanted. I learned quickly, though. He loved that struggle, and he loved the moment he broke you; when you just gave up and let it happen. But then, if you stopped fighting all together, he got bored of you. And I saw what happened to the toys he grew bored with, and I didn’t want that either. So I adapted, like I’ve done my whole life. I accepted and I adapted. But… when Liv took over, I didn’t even try to fight it then. Without a thought, I became whoever she wanted me to be, or whoever the client wanted me to be. I didn’t even question it. It felt somehow like… that was all I was meant to be. That’s what Gerry had made me believe. I was just a tool for people to take what they wanted from me.” Dragon spoke confidently, almost like it was a speech he’d given before. But his voice suddenly fell to a whisper. “‘What do you do best?’ they’d asked me. I told them… ‘Cry.’”

Tiger swallowed. Dragon spoke before he could.

“Now tell me something.”