So, rape. Pop Culture Detective released a while back an interesting video essay on how abhorrent the trope of sexual assault of men played up for laughs is. It focused on male perpetrators of rape, especially in the painfully tired prison soap reference. It was a very difficult video to watch for me. Maybe it's because I'm a criminal defense attorney and the subject hits too close to home. I find it an atrocity that rape is used as an implicit extra-judicial component of prison punishment.
I say it’s up to the survivor to decide if their being sexually assaulted was traumatic and, if so, how much it effects them. I discovered one or two interesting articles on this topic, both written by cis female feminists if I remember correctly, talking about their experiences of being sexually assaulted (one of them multiple times) and asserting that they were not effected by them very much. They problematized how rape “should” effect someone. I’ll have to dig them up
I say it’s up to the survivor to decide if their being sexually assaulted was traumatic and, if so, how much it effects them. I discovered one or two interesting articles on this topic, both written by cis female feminists if I remember correctly, talking about their experiences of being sexually assaulted (one of them multiple times) and asserting that they were not effected by them very much. They problematized how rape “should” effect someone. I’ll have to dig them up