ok heads up to the ppl in the comments saying shit like 'if you cant take the rape drop it...

you said it so perfectly muah

maybe they're not normalizing it, they might be showing how r@pe can have an effect someone both mentally and phsically.

Yes exactly

I get what you mean, but its so cliché in every Yaoi nowadays but considering what you said don't you think once is enough? why the hell twice?

r@pe doesn't just stop at getting forced once, it can happen over and over again no matter where you are. so them showing it again makes us more aware of the dangers. i also get what you mean but them choosing to do r@pe is also a good thing we can learn and grow from learning others feelings. (im not saying r@pe is a good thing, if anyone misunderstands)

yeah I get what your saying, I'm just really pissed at the fact authors are normalizing it, yes we should be aware of it, but rape is such a sensitive topic that it pisses me off how many authors (that lets just say, have 0 experience going through it) write about it so much. And then on top of that its just the others in the comments, their being insensitive about rape which just pisses me off. But yea i get what your saying.

I get where ur going at, but to me, these stories normalize rape not in how frequent it’s done, but in HOW it’s done. In stories where it’s labelled a romance, and the art looks cute (like this story or “Who’s Your Daddy”, as two examples), when u suddenly throw in sexual assault, and all the characters just brush it off—that is normalizing rape. Especially when we know that the victim and the perpetrator will be end-game.

Exactly.

i mean the author has their own brain so i think we shouldn't say anything abt it. There are many mangas out there with rape but its not like its all happening in the same world. Its just the plot and the kind of mood setting they want. As a writer i honestly have rape in some of my works but not because im normalising it but because of the mood and the kind of trauma that they go through.

yea I can get that, but a lot of authors nowadays get rape so wrong, they just randomly think rape is just sex against will, it much more than that and someone who has experienced it, its just terrible. but to each their own opinion

//tw assault, attempted rape

literally, when i was young i thought it was kinda hot/romantic ((i was 12)) but when it actually happened it was not like how the authors described at all, it’s a shitty feeling/experience nobody should have go through. Maybe it was partly my fault being exposed to such media at a young age but its so normalized in dramas/novels that its pretty accessible to almost everyone. It happened when i was 13 and i thought it was fine at first until i actually processed what happened and man it is not even in the slightest romantic or hot. Some stories have very similar settings to what happened to me (and i think many victims) but the difference is why do they have a happy ending??..in case of murder in manga, there is always consequences and you get arrested if it happens irl. But in case of rape/sexual assault many cases are dismissed, forgotten, sometimes the victims are even too ashamed to admit to it, and its just not something i can understand as to why people normalize it in romance sm. Sorry if im venting

oh god luv, I'm so sorry to hear you went through this, I hope your doing well! Its disheartening to hear people have to go through this shit :( and dw vent all you want <3 The reason I was so conflicted about this topic is because I've been in a similar situation though I was strong enough to fight back, I was about 12 when some "uncle" of mine came and touched me in a few places, as you said I knew it was inappropriate but i liked the feeling of being wanted but soon enough it changed into abuse, I did things that angered him and got abused a lot mentally and physically, to the point he almost raped me, but i fought back so I was safe ig, I really couldn't tell anyone cause my parents never trusted me so I kept my mouth shut, eventually the man slowly exited my life though to this day I resent him sm, that's kinda why i got pissed at authors these days involving rape in their storyline, I'm strong enough to read about it but its such a shitty portrayal of the pain and suffering people go through when raped. So im just mad at the fact authors are considering it in a love story, and the fact some ppl consider that love. That's not love darling. Its obsession and its disgusting. Sorry for my venting lol.