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

[ubervirgin.livejournal.com]

I may not have expressed it correctly earlier, but I think they may have wanted to show that the act of stabbing someone is a very violating act that can be seen as a type of rape, which could lead profilers to make the leap that the perpetrator is impotent.

I think that if they were going to portray any of the profilers being raped (as an adult) it would probably be by an UNSUB that takes a certain type of man and rapes them. I think the Powers that Be at CBS would feel that it would be easier for the audience to take if the profiler in question was attacked "in the line of fire" instead of coming home and getting attacked totally by surprise.

...which is the way it would probably happen.

And I hate to see it, but if any character got raped on the show, it would probably be Reid.

Which makes me sad. But I can see how CBS would consider him the most appropriate victim.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Which makes me sad. But I can see how CBS would consider him the most appropriate victim.

But isn't it to CM's credit that they have actually often gone against the stereotype in these matters? Like rather than doing "women in peril" stories they write a sexual abuse story for Morgan (and now possibly Hotch), while the women get stories like going vigilante (Elle) or taking a beating while keeping their cool (Prentiss)? Aren't they also the show that went with Morgan as the sexual abuse victim, aka the person probably anybody would have least expected just going on tv stereotypes?