honestly i don't even see that as being an issue as long as it's not presented as being something that she was pressured into doing or treated as the "right" course of action, like it's expected of her to do so and if she didn't she'd be a bad person or something like that. not every victim reacts the same way and i personally get really uncomfortable with the prevailing attitude that a character is somehow being written "wrong" if they aren't horribly traumatized by their experience.
not every victim reacts the same way and i personally get really uncomfortable with the prevailing attitude that a character is somehow being written "wrong" if they aren't horribly traumatized by their experience.
Leaving aside the whole situation in Valvrave (which was really damn shitty, I may add)... HOLY SHIT THIS. Crying and being unstable are NOT the only possible/valid reactions to trauma, there are so many prospect behaviors as human being exist and claiming that only tears and unstability are the only "good" ways to react is so damn creepy.
there's a difference between "not horribly traumatized" and "the only important thing about women getting raped is how it makes some guy feel", and i see a lot more of the latter than the former.
This same shit was done in the 1980s in that OVA Zeorymer, and it was an OVA that was pretty much critically panned like it deserves because of the rampant sexism and handling of rape.
Yet people will jump to Valvrave's defense when it does the same shit as Zeorymer. showing that the anime industry has not grown or matured at all in like 20 years.
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-23 04:20 am (UTC)(link)Re: +1
(Anonymous) 2013-10-23 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)not every victim reacts the same way and i personally get really uncomfortable with the prevailing attitude that a character is somehow being written "wrong" if they aren't horribly traumatized by their experience.
Leaving aside the whole situation in Valvrave (which was really damn shitty, I may add)... HOLY SHIT THIS. Crying and being unstable are NOT the only possible/valid reactions to trauma, there are so many prospect behaviors as human being exist and claiming that only tears and unstability are the only "good" ways to react is so damn creepy.
DA
(Anonymous) 2013-10-23 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)Re: DA
(Anonymous) 2013-10-24 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)Yet people will jump to Valvrave's defense when it does the same shit as Zeorymer. showing that the anime industry has not grown or matured at all in like 20 years.