I completely agree. Sexual violence should never be reduced to a plot device or a joke. Male survivors deserve to have their trauma taken seriously, and female characters deserve to be more than tools for male revenge. This is such an important conversation❤️ Can share post please 🙏 I need buy food

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the other bare minimum is that changing the components is just automatically more novel than re-doing the same familiar trope. what if it's a woman avenging the assault of a male loved one? automatically more layered even if you don't do a good job exploring the conversation abt gender & violence

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effectively these narratives (in general) are STILL about how his masculinity needs to be reaffirmed thru violence, but the insult to his honor is bodily absorbed by a woman (the natural object of penetration) so that he can still be "penetrator-not-penetrable" while affirming his masculine honor

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right! like the bare minimum effect is that it forces a confrontation with the unexamined parts of the trope

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You know, this is fairly generative exercise in terms of thinking about media, gendered violence, and rape culture. Because if you said "what if the woman picked up a gun" my immediate reaction would be "hell yeah" but when you ask "what if the man picked up a gun in response to being raped himself"

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