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- huntsman,
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- rape,
- regina mills
OauT: Regina Mills, Rapist
Recapper points out that Regina rapes people. The writers apparently don't agree, but the writers are wrong in this case.
I guess maybe they're using that old sexist thought process that says a man can't ever really be raped the way a woman can by a woman because a man can always fight her off , or that, failing that, he has to get an erection in order to have sex with her, which means he has to on some level, participate. This is often not true- men can get erect against their conscious will (and arousal does not matter if you still didn't want it, because sometimes female victims end up aroused against their will and that does not mean they weren't raped) and assumes that vaginal intercourse is the only way heterosexual female on male rape can happen. Women do rape adult men less often than men in general rape women or each other, that's a fact, but it's not because women can't. It's not even because women are better people, because they're not necessarily- it's probably, I'm thinking, because such an act is more likely to backfire badly on the woman unless she's on The Pill. And well, women aren't raised with the idea that men owe them anything.
That being said, coercion is also rape, if you put a person in a position where they ostensibly have a choice but in reality, their only real choice is to give in to sex with someone... depending on the details of the situation that can also be rape. Like, if you won't let someone leave until they engage in some sort of sexual behavior, that's pretty much sexual assault.
But Graham doesn't even have those choices anyway. He can't fight or consent or make any decisions because he literally has no control over his mind or body. It's not even like having sex with someone who is drunk, this is more like having sex with someone who is hypnotized. Because getting someone to have sex with you by tricking them into thinking that they're doing something else is also rape- in real life, if a man climbs through the window and has sex with a woman while she's half asleep and she consents because she thinks he's her husband, that legally counts as rape in many places. If someone doesn't know that they were raped, that doesn't mean they weren't raped.
The first thing Regina does when she takes Graham's heart out is order him sent to her bedroom, while he is dragged away looking dazed. Yeah, that was totally consensual. I was horrified.
It's weird that the real writers wouldn't realize what they actually wrote with Regina/Graham...
I wonder how they'll deal with characters who were raped in their original stories (actually or metaphorically).
I guess maybe they're using that old sexist thought process that says a man can't ever really be raped the way a woman can by a woman because a man can always fight her off , or that, failing that, he has to get an erection in order to have sex with her, which means he has to on some level, participate. This is often not true- men can get erect against their conscious will (and arousal does not matter if you still didn't want it, because sometimes female victims end up aroused against their will and that does not mean they weren't raped) and assumes that vaginal intercourse is the only way heterosexual female on male rape can happen. Women do rape adult men less often than men in general rape women or each other, that's a fact, but it's not because women can't. It's not even because women are better people, because they're not necessarily- it's probably, I'm thinking, because such an act is more likely to backfire badly on the woman unless she's on The Pill. And well, women aren't raised with the idea that men owe them anything.
That being said, coercion is also rape, if you put a person in a position where they ostensibly have a choice but in reality, their only real choice is to give in to sex with someone... depending on the details of the situation that can also be rape. Like, if you won't let someone leave until they engage in some sort of sexual behavior, that's pretty much sexual assault.
But Graham doesn't even have those choices anyway. He can't fight or consent or make any decisions because he literally has no control over his mind or body. It's not even like having sex with someone who is drunk, this is more like having sex with someone who is hypnotized. Because getting someone to have sex with you by tricking them into thinking that they're doing something else is also rape- in real life, if a man climbs through the window and has sex with a woman while she's half asleep and she consents because she thinks he's her husband, that legally counts as rape in many places. If someone doesn't know that they were raped, that doesn't mean they weren't raped.
The first thing Regina does when she takes Graham's heart out is order him sent to her bedroom, while he is dragged away looking dazed. Yeah, that was totally consensual. I was horrified.
It's weird that the real writers wouldn't realize what they actually wrote with Regina/Graham...
I wonder how they'll deal with characters who were raped in their original stories (actually or metaphorically).