comickal: metacommentary
ANGBAND - They got it about right (caution: rape talked about below, trigger warning):
So I was looking at the above-linked entry via When Fangirls Attack, and I ran across the below comment:
madthinker12357 on August 20th, 2007: Ugh. I'm not asking for rape in comics. If there is never another rape, I won't care. I am absolutely NOT saying that because rape happens in real life that it should be in comics. I am not even implying that.
My point was that if men are raped in comics as much as women, it make women and gay men look like the predators and men (who are usually straight men) look like the most common victims. Is that what you want? Because like me, feminist theory is usually against that. If you want to send what many would consider to be anti-feminist messages that imply that it is really straight men we need to protect from rape because they get raped soooooooo much, you can make that case, but I, like most feminist, oppose it.
Leaving aside the issue actually being discussed in the thread, all I have to say is: most men who are raped are raped by other straight men. (And, actually, I'm pretty sure that most men who get raped are straight, for that matter. It's not about lust, particularly; it's about doing something because you can and because it will get inside someone's head.)
Probably should have commented over there, but (1) it's a complete side issue to the thread, and (2) didn't want to get into it. But I did just want it said.
So I was looking at the above-linked entry via When Fangirls Attack, and I ran across the below comment:
madthinker12357 on August 20th, 2007: Ugh. I'm not asking for rape in comics. If there is never another rape, I won't care. I am absolutely NOT saying that because rape happens in real life that it should be in comics. I am not even implying that.
My point was that if men are raped in comics as much as women, it make women and gay men look like the predators and men (who are usually straight men) look like the most common victims. Is that what you want? Because like me, feminist theory is usually against that. If you want to send what many would consider to be anti-feminist messages that imply that it is really straight men we need to protect from rape because they get raped soooooooo much, you can make that case, but I, like most feminist, oppose it.
Leaving aside the issue actually being discussed in the thread, all I have to say is: most men who are raped are raped by other straight men. (And, actually, I'm pretty sure that most men who get raped are straight, for that matter. It's not about lust, particularly; it's about doing something because you can and because it will get inside someone's head.)
Probably should have commented over there, but (1) it's a complete side issue to the thread, and (2) didn't want to get into it. But I did just want it said.