Fanfiction’s use of sexual assault
TRIGGER WARNING: Rape, sexual assault.
So as I perused the interwebs for some freaknasty kpop erotic literature, also known as kpop fanfiction, I noticed a growing trend: More and more writers are making scenarios where a the idol rapes the girl or forces the girls to perform sexual acts on him in exchange for something the girl needs/wants and at the end the girl is grateful she was put through all of it because at least she got to do it with her bias.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?
Understand this:
The redefinition of rape outside its context of a violent sex crime in rape jokes, in fanfiction normalizes the act- so rape is not taken as serious violent crime anymore because you have been indoctrinated to see it as an act that can be funny or an act that makes the abuser/rapist some sort of sexual savior.
If you laugh at rape joke, you in turn laugh at rape.
If you make fan fiction about rape, you take rape outside its context and paint the rapist as doing a good.
Did you know there is an epidemic of sexual assault in America right now? Every 29 seconds a woman is raped.
Do you know what rape culture is?
It is the notion that girls shouldn’t get raped, not that boys shouldn’t rape. That somehow that victim provoked the attack and is to blame. It is bad enough that as a female I am expected to be some delicate flower floating in the breeze that has to smile to every asshole that harasses me or else I am a bitch, but if I am sexually assaulted it is my fault because I somehow provoked or initiated my attack.
SO, when you write these fan fictions you are furthering adding to this culture that pushes that idea that rape isn’t a big deal or that the victim is to blame; that in the end the girl deserved- enjoyed it- needed it.
Stop perpetuating that bullshit.
These fan fics where the girl is forced to perform a sex act in exchange for something paints women as objects that can be traded for sex. You are painting woman as disposal items that can be traded, and that rape is justified because there is an exchange.
Don’t you all see that this perpetuates violence against women and adds to the already standing oppression that women are incapable of taking control of their sexuality and are disposable?
So let’s recap, in case you missed my point: When you take rape outside the context of what it is, a violent sex crime against an unwilling person, you are redefining and normalizing this crime; when you make a fan fiction about a rape, where in the end the rapist is painted as some sort of hero you are perpetuating that idea that rape is okay.
It is not.
Fuck you, fuck that, and cut that shit out.