@zeltrax225 said in Dandadan:
Dude, why didn't anyone bring up the fact that the old granny is eating up cock and balls? That should warrant a discussion if we are going that route, aren't we?
When I asked if the entire series was that rapey. I was in fact talking about both encounters. But since it's come up and been discussed more since then...
Ken's situation happens off camera, is implied to be through magic, and not rape or surgical mutilation. It can be undone with no long term harm to him. He still even has all his clothes on afterward and we don't really know what's happened to him.
Meanwhile, Momo has all her clothes stripped off, the aliens talk explicitly about reproducing with her, that her virginity is going to be taken,she is forcibly held down, has her head drugged to force her to be aroused, and then this happens.
The situations are not treated the same. One is a magical monster attack, (that she's going to take his balls is yikes, but it could just as easily have been his liver or something for how it's treated). The otheris prolonged attempted rape. They're both assault and violations, but that ARE treated different.
Even outside of how this series handled it, it's just naturally treated different historically and in fiction. Men are bigger and stronger and can force themselves more easily, and it is almost always a man forcing it. (Yes it can go the other way but statistically less common.) Doubled up with the fact that women can have permanent consequences from it while men just get their couple minutes of action with no long term loss to them, and it means that yes, assault IS unbalanced and its generally much worse towards women.
There's exceptions and nuance there, but that's generally the case.
In Futurama there's famously an episode where a bunch of amazons take the men captive and are going to forcibly Snu Snu them. It's treated as a joke because the guys are all for it, even if it IS going to crush their pelvises and kill them. But it's still a joke because they're okay with it. Reverse that with a bunch of men forcing themselves on to women and, no matter how receptive they act, it quickly becomes horrifying. It's a violation either way, but society treats the two differently, and there's a reason for it.
