#rape cw /

[adolin]

Full names and details of every man who was convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. The list includes 50 men who could be identified, besides Gisèle's husband, ranging in age from 27 to 74. Among them are a firefighter, a journalist, a nurse, a construction worker, and a prison guard. Most have families of their own, and only about half had previous convictions.

[confield]

we're all in agreement that rape fantasies are pretty common and not specific to queer people or anything right. like shockingly common. we don't have to have discourse about this. it's chill. re:being "forced to have sex"

i thought this was common knowledge. it's chill

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA For Not Tagging a Work?

I, 32F, write primarily for my own enjoyment, my main platform being AO3. I currently have a multi-chaoter series that includes several major plot twists, including one that includes non-con. To avoid spoiling it, because I believe my stories deserve to be read with as little background info as possible, I only tag it as "Creator CHOSE not to Include Archive Warnings". Which is, as I hope is obvious, is not synonymous with "There Are No Warnings". The point is, I don't use the Rape/Non-con tag. Recently, I got a very upset reader in my comments complaining about how triggering that chapter of my work is, and that's where I have a problem. I believe the corporate obsession content warnings pervading even fanworks to be a major problem. I don't want to sanitize my work, but I do get that they contain pretty heavy themes. But I feel like I seriously do give my stories a disservice by adding labels on them, and maybe I am the asshole for this, but I value my pride and joy (my work) over strangers online. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[heritageposts]

For context, since this is getting almost no mainstream coverage by Western media:

[cw rape & further warning: there are brief clips in the video below from the leaked Sde Teiman recording, but it doesn't show any of the sexual abuse. The full CCTV video, which I won't be sharing here, contains footage of a Palestinian prisoner being gang raped by Israeli soldiers.]

Testimony from a former prisoner of Sde Teiman:

“Most of the prisoners will come out with rectum injuries [caused by the sexual assault],” Salem, 36, told Middle East Eye.  The prisoners will tell each other it is haemorrhoids, he added, but most are just avoiding admitting they had been raped, sometimes by female soldiers. In the following eyewitness account, Salem recalls his ordeal, starting from his arrest at a hospital in Gaza until his release. 

[the-cybersmith]

All the wokescold lefty communists (such as @autisticexpression2 and probably @tanadrin) acting offended by this should shut their hypocritical mouths.

This is the world you made.

Or, to be more precise, this is the world you returned us to.

For most of history; stone, bronze, and iron age alike, this was normal and acceptable behaviour.

Until a few hundred years ago, this was the standard all over the planet except for a few places in Europe and Ethiopia.

The victorious warriors of a premodern conflict would select attractive young specimens from amongst the captured fighting men of a defeated enemy tribe and bring them home to be castrated and used for pleasure.

They all had different words for it, "thrall", "slave", etc... but it was essentially the same practice.

What put an end to this practice was the advent and spread of Universalist Christian Morality, or UCM. According to UCM, the victor was obliged to be merciful, and moderate, and restrained.

However, you got rid of UCM. You got rid of it because you found its rules inconvenient. Rules like "don't shoot your political opponent in the head whilst he's in the middle of a speech".

Well, congratulations. You have what you wanted. No more UCM. Just old-fashioned might makes right Nietzchean master morality (I think @loving-n0t-heyting can give a better explanation of this than I can) as far as the eye can see.

You openly bragged on X about how you were going to lock people up if you won. You said you would bankrupt Elon Musk, and take away his businesses. Well... you lost!

These soon-to-be catamites are combatants. They admit to being adults, to having voted. They are active participants in a campaign that would see men like Robert J. O'Neil disenfranchised and humiliated. They cannot claim innocence.

They would have sent him and his friends to dei training sessions and sexism awareness lessons. They would have taxed him, and locked up his heroes, and censored him on social media.

If they won.

Instead, they lost.

And now, like many losers throughout history, they shall be subject to the unrestained whims of those who defeated them.

Harry Sisson should take some progesterone, put on a dress, and report for Harem duty.

He's a concubine now.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

nightwing (1996) annual #2 + #133–137: dick, barbara, liu

[c-53]

AAAAAA OK MOUTHWASHING SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. DONT READ IF YOU WANT TO PLAY IT, I MEAN IT!!!!!!

THE PERCEPTION Of the crew on the ship is fucking insane! like to Jimmy, Anya is weak and she can’t stand to be around Jimmy because she’s weak, not because anything Jimmy did. And Swansea is a villain who’s out to get him and lie to him because he has the audacity to be a man with problems, and a man with a weapon, and man who says ‘no’ to him, and Jimmy is such a deeply fucked person that he cannot conceptualize having all of that and then NOT abusing your power. And Daisuke being nothing more than obedient and something to control, and Curly bEING LIKE A FUCKING GODHEAD.

Curly is an embodiment of an ideal good man, and Curly is an embodiment of responsibility and forgiveness, Curly doesn’t run from his problems, Curly protects people, Curly is the hero and Jimmy hates him for not being fallible and he hates that Curly took Anya’s side and he hates that Swansea respects Curly as a captain more than Jimmy, and he loves Curly because Curly can’t talk back anymore. Curly can’t refuse, or say no, or protect himself. Curly exists as an extension of the rape themes. He can only lay there and watch. He is defenseless, and he is voiceless. He has to endure his friend using his condition as an opening to abuse him.

He’s such a good person. He wanted to help everyone, and his only mistake was trying to handle an incredibly delicate situation with a touch too much delicacy. This fucking game…

[raymoohackery]

mouthwashing spoilers because im thiiinkiiiing

one thing about mouthwashing is that anya is underdeveloped and underexplored precisely because from the point of view of jimmy, she doesn't exist as a person to him. only as the vessel of the consequence of his actions. where he's not even worried about the hurt he caused to a living breathing person, as with all the other crewmates, but as a change to his miserable life he already hated. she's a thorn in his side. but only because she dared to get pregnant after HIS abuse. it makes him take responsibility. something he wanted but is horrified of because it makes him lose choice and control and power

and how, inversely, jimmy became more caring for curly after the incident. when he became immobile and unable to speak. all of curly's dialogue was imagined and served only to torture him mentally. he cradled curly in his arms and fed him his own god damn leg amidst the corpses of his crew because he couldn't do anything to stop it. and then jimmy dared thinking he could fix it all and become the hero of the tale again by putting a man who was constantly begging for death in the sole chance of getting out of the ship alive

what a god damn grade A scumbag. and what a completely believable character, too. because really all jimmy wanted was control, something completely normal to want, but wouldn't stop at anything to seize it and make miserable little excuses for his desire, actions, and consequences

gunna be thinking about this game for ages

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for going "too far" in an eRP?

Me (19F) and a friend (almost 16F) have done a sizable amount of erotic roleplays (we mostly do sfw ones don't call me a creep). Around a week ago I asked if I could do a twist on our usual scenarios and she gave me the go-ahead. We started like usual until I brought up that the twist would be that it would be noncon. Suddenly she lashed out at me, asking "what the fuck is wrong with you" and immediately ceasing contact. I've tried messaging her saying what she said really hurt me but she hasn't responded in 4 days. Was I the asshole for not knowing something would upset her THAT bad?

What are these acronyms?

[vague-humanoid]

A few months after arriving, she said, she was raped by the man who wrote the letter of invitation that had gotten her out of the war zone.

“She was sleeping and he woke her up and roughly dragged her into his room,” says Olga Udovichenko, whom Svetlana later approached for help at the Volunteer Help Center for Refugees from Ukraine in Haifa. “She suffered deeply from both the war and the rape — but here she could barely get any assistance from the authorities. Instead of help she encountered a maze of bureaucracy and lost any motivation she had to hold the man to account and seek justice.”

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is estimated to have killed more than 40,000 civilians and displaced up to 30 million more. As the war surpasses 300 days, 17.7 million Ukrainians around the world need humanitarian help and protection, according to the United Nations.

Svetlana is one of over 47,000 Ukrainians — the vast majority of them women — who traveled to Israel since the start of the invasion but who are not eligible for citizenship under Israel’s Law of Return, according to Israel’s Welfare Ministry. Of these, only approximately 15,000 currently remain in Israel, with the rest having chosen to leave. Not a single Ukrainian fleeing the war has been accorded refugee status by Israel.

A Times of Israel investigation has documented cases of rape, sexual harassment, workplace exploitation and other abuses faced in Israel by these women, many of whom have had their homes destroyed and lost their livelihoods. At least one of the women’s lives ended in death by suicide.

Many of these abuses remain at best under the radar of the authorities or at worst willfully ignored, leaving the victims in a cycle of violence and poverty that only deepens the trauma they have endured to date. The perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes.

[c-53]

Just cause I have no one else to talk to about this with-one of my "favorite" things about Mouthwashing is how it doesn't portray rape as being just this terrible thing committed by some monster boogieman, but being done by a human. someone who has feelings about it, even if they're shitty and off the mark. Someone who you're gonna have to find a way to face at work the next day. Mouthwashing isn't perfect, but I think that most other media is really dismissive of rape in one direction or another. Either victims don't matter, or perpetrators are unmentionable monsters. It's a little tough to swallow, but usually, this is just a reality for victims. It makes me feel more understood. you know?

No yeah I’ve discussed this a lot with some other people.

Jimmy being a rapist isn’t the core of his character. Its a culmination of other factors present in his personality, that are all grounded in realistic fears, desires, and insecurities. Like he’s some asshole you could know in real life. You learn about these traits and see him as a person, before you learn he is a rapist. Playing as him also really cements him as a person in a really solid way, like you occupy his headspace, and follow his problem solving, and experience the player entitlement to do everything and have everything that is inherent to him and his personality.

Likewise you learn about Anya, before you see her as a victim. You see her anxiety and distance and discomfort around Jimmy first, and its very clear she doesn’t want to talk about it head on despite it eating her up. It trusts you to read between the lines. This manner of setting them up avoids the pitfall of the dismissiveness you mentioned, where a character - in writing, and reader interpretation - are a rapist and victim first and foremost, and reduced to those facts.

Because like you said. Rape in fiction is USUALLY handled poorly. Often in one of two ways: the violent and uncompassionate monster with no sympathetic qualities and? No motive beyond cruelty? Or like. Passion of love that transcends boundaries. And both are entirely bullshit. In real life its just someone who’s entitled and self centered in just the right wrong way (a mode of thought you, as a player, are guided to follow before the information is revealed), and then someone else who has to struggle with the fact it happened and how to move forward. And most of the time in these situations, the victim feels they can’t say anything, due to the structures of punishment, or the proximity that would have allowed such a thing to occur - with that being driven to an extreme in mouthwashing.

Idk. I’m rambling but its realistic, and thoughtful, and I’ve been very impressed with the depth it manages to convey without telling you what to think, or even saying too much out loud. which is very appreciated.

[kelvintimeline]

good omens fans saying “i can’t abandon this fandom it’s my safe space 🥺”

meanwhile their safe space is full of people calling rape victims liars and invoking rhetoric that has been used to justify abuse (“why didn’t she immediately leave him?” “why didn’t she speak up?” “why did she fawn over him after the abuse?” “why did she backtrack when he told her he wanted to kill himself?” “she must’ve been tricked into thinking it was rape by her friends” and also “actually she must have false memories, neil said she does”)

safe space for who exactly

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[youknowihadtodoittothem]

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[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for joking about someone on the other side of an argument getting r@p3d

I (17F at the time) didn’t really like the proship community that much. After they harassed me for a bit i felt that I should just be one of them. I saw a X post about an antiship person being hateful and joked about that person getting r@p3d. the proship community proceeded to say that “all antis are freaks” including me, who wanted to be on the correct side and not be mean just because people liked r@p3 or ¡n€e$t. so that’s why i did it. my X account is suspended now because they mass reported it when i wanted to improve and become one of them. i no longer like the term or anyone in the community for this reason. but if i see them again i will defend them no matter how much i hate them because i want to be a good hearted person.

AITA?

What are these acronyms?