I'm disgusted.

[severity_softly]

I haven't read (until now) or participated in any of the "was or wasn't Hotch raped" debates, but I have heard about this sort of opinion before: some people seem to want this storyline WAY too much. And that makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

I haven't made up my mind one way or the other whether I think that's what happened, and I would be fine either way, but the "that storyline would just be SO-OMG-AWESOME" comments sort of make me feel queasy. I hadn't read them until it came up in my journal. You know, it's my journal, and I really sort of don't want to hear "OMG I HOPE HOTCH GOT RAPED". I really, REALLY don't. Do I think that storyline might be compelling? Sure. Do I think it makes sense and could have very well happened? Sure, if it's played right. Am I practically pissing my pants with joy at the idea that Hotch might have been brutally (as if there is any other kind of sexual assualt) raped at his weakest moment by the man he most wants to catch, and that he'll probably be scarred for life? No, and I think it's sort of a disgusting way to think.

Sorry if any of you all feel that way. I haven't read any reaction posts because I haven't made up my mind, so I might be pissing some of my flist off. But whatever. It's how I feel. I don't want to listen to squeefull discussion about rape, tyvm.

I am leaving this unlocked, but if anyone decides they want to argue that this sort of squee is acceptable, I may not reply, as I will probably get more disgusted. I hold nothing against the people who have left those comments mentioned. It's their opinion, and they're welcome to it. I just happen to find it all distasteful. If anyone decides it's acceptable to find these comments in my journal that I mentioned and start wank, however, IT'S NOT, and I may unfriend/ban people over it. You're warned.

Comments

[slash-girl.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. I haven't read a lot of the comments but I have seen a few like you mentioned. It could make an interesting story if it were handled well--either fanfic or show wise, but I'm not jonesing for it in any way, shape or form. I think Hotch is going through enough without adding rape into the mix. (And really, I'm just waiting for all the Magical!Healing!Sex stories to start showing up. *shudder*)

I don't think it will come out on the show that Hotch was raped, mostly because I can't see CBS okaying a story line with a main/regular male character being raped. That may be why it's so ambiguous--or we're reading more into the scene than may have been intended--it's hard to say. I also don't think Foyet emasculated Hotch--had it been that, I'd think Prentiss would've had more of a reaction when she read Hotch's chart than what she did. Of course, this is CM, so, who knows?

But yeah, squeeing over Hotch being raped--that'd be like squeeing over the fact Morgan was sexually abused as a child or that Prentiss had an abortion. It's simply and totally distasteful.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I didn't squee about Prentiss' abortion, but I was impressed. Is it really that odd to be impressed by a show that is willing to deal with things that tragic or not, are still rather taboo in today's world? Don't get me wrong, I really hate "going there" for going there's sake. But it's still something that impresses me when it comes up naturally (I actually felt the same way when Sex and The City did an episode where Carrie reveals she had an abortion in college and deals with it, by musing what her life could have been like, visiting the babydaddy from back then who works at a restaurant and pondering whether she should have told him, etc) and a show talks about it honestly.

I don't like abortions, I would never want to get one myself, but again, a show that can discuss it honestly does impress me on some level.

IMO, an actually well told male rape or rape recovery story would be similar to me. But I'm way too jaded to truly believe it could be well done, so even if the show went there, I have a hard time believing I could have anything other than really mixed feelings about it. That's the problem with such touchy subjects, there's just so much potential for utter FAIL.

I have to admit, I'm puzzled by people who think that it would be a good ground for fic. Because for me, all I can think of is, wouldn't that make shipping and particularly slashing like a million times harder? Maybe I just don't get it. Because regardless of how I might feel or not feel in canon way, as far as slashing is concerend, it would throw down a mountain high roadblock rather than opening doors.