Here, watch this. This is one of my favorite web series, Atop the Fourth Wall, talking about something which should never be used.
The fact that rape had to be used in this fashion is appalling, sickening and completely unacceptable. If I EVER find the person who wrote this piece of schlock, I would bash his head in with a tire iron.
No....I'd either give it to Linkara to do, or give it to my best friend. She would really let him have it.
Any work like this is meant to be derided, insulted, and totally criticized. This trope-used in any media as a simple plot point-is FORBIDDEN in my book. I will not read anything with this trope used in such a callous manner, much less any other manner without proper depth used otherwise.
Be warned, fellow writers, be warned. I don't care what you think about one man saying no, but I'm watching you now.
Oh, I already knew about this one. It's Discontinuity on the highest level. Didn't happen. Sleeze passed and dreamed the whole scenario. He woke up covered in his own semen.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it might be retconned, but you know how I feel about this kind of stupidity as a whole, especially in narrative context. I can't think of ANY circumstance where this should be allowed or supported in media or writing. TV uses it too much-especially nighttime drama to be more "edgy", and now some games and still comics are being allowed to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteJust kind of a shock, not to mention how completely and utterly wrong it is to have rape of a superheroine, and implied potential rape of a long-time iconic superhero, to even be considering fair print.
They should still be warned.