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this!! this was the explanation i was looking for!! you could not have explained the rape tag issue any better thank you for getting this out
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this!! this was the explanation i was looking for!! you could not have explained the rape tag issue any better thank you for getting this out
Personally, for me, there are three broad types of comics with rape in them:
1) The ones that are blatantly smut & fetish-focused rather than plot-based .
2) The ones that are fundamentally story-focused and have rape as a serious or important part of the plot.
3) The ones that are fundamentally story-focused but use rape as a cheap/lazy trope instead of working out a plot point properly.
For myself, it's number 3 that I get really irritated at, because the rape is unnecessary usually normalises or minimises the rape in order to have the rest of the story turn out prettily.
While some people, for understandable reasons, may not feel comfortable with rape in any form of fiction, I feel that often the disagreements arise because people APPEAR to be objecting to or condoning ALL rape, when, in actual fact, as sensible, yaoi-reading people, most are objecting to the third type while most others are defending the first and maybe second type.
Anyway, those are just my thoughts, it's not meant to deny anyone else's feelings on the matter.