A Story About Being Attacked by an Armed JK - Ch. 20

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If their roles were to change, everyone would be going crazy about it, but suddenly it's fine since the victim is a guy. It's crazy how much they are trying to romanticize stuff like this. I don't get how people are even enjoying this.
 
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If their roles were to change, everyone would be going crazy about it, but suddenly it's fine since the victim is a guy. It's crazy how much they are trying to romanticize stuff like this. I don't get how people are even enjoying this.
I mean, most people are reading it for shits and giggles, then again it's fiction so you gotta separate those
 
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If their roles were to change, everyone would be going crazy about it, but suddenly it's fine since the victim is a guy. It's crazy how much they are trying to romanticize stuff like this. I don't get how people are even enjoying this.
Society is a contradicting bitch.

Shoujo and josei manga commonly feature transgressive or outright predatory male love interests. These are works written primarily by women, to female audiences. In the States, book series like Twilight and Fifty Shades had (and perhaps continue to have) immense appeal with at least pubescent women and older, and these by themselves featured that same kind of male love interest (perhaps worse, in their transgressiveness).

Speaking in terms of art, the contradiction isn't in the sexes of the aggressor and victim, but in how we treat depictions of sexual transgression based on how attractive the aggressor is. Fundamentally, it's a matter of wanting to receive sexual attention from people we find attractive, and additionally being inclined to be charitable to people when we find them attractive.

Many people desire to be used and abused by the object of their affection-- even if they recognize that the act would be wrong in its own right. At least, they fixate on the prospect of it, usually without being familiar with the reality of such an arrangement. The target audience is also important-- this but role reversed may be well received if marketed towards and received by a specific kind of masochistic woman, and may have broader appeal among women if the "edges" (e.g. rape at gunpoint) were sanded down into something like seductive persistence.

In real life, with real crime? Yeah, the double standard is more incomprehensible in regards to the reactions of third parties (e.g. recipients of the news, juries, judges) being much more lenient on female rapists than male rapists, statutory or otherwise.
 
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Shoujo and josei manga commonly feature transgressive or outright predatory male love interests. These are works written primarily by women, to female audiences. In the States, books series like Twilight and Fifty Shades had (and perhaps continue to have) immense appeal with at least pubescent women and older, and these by themselves featured that same kind of male love interest (perhaps worse, in their transgressiveness).

Speaking in terms of art, the contradiction isn't in the sexes of the aggressor and victim, but in how we treat depictions of sexual transgression based on how attractive the aggressor is. Fundamentally, it's a matter of wanting to receive attraction from people we find attractive, and additionally being inclined to be charitable to people when we find them attractive.

Many people desire to be used and abused by the object of their affection-- even if they recognize that the act would be wrong in its own right. At least, they fixate on the prospect of it, usually without being familiar with the reality of such an arrangement. The target audience is also important-- this but role reversed may be well received if marketed and received towards a specific kind of masochistic woman, and may have broader appeal among women if the edges (e.g. rape at gunpoint) were sanded down into something like seductive persistence.

In real life, with real crime? Yeah, the double standard is more incomprehensible in regards to the reactions of third parties (e.g. recipients of the news, juries, judges) being much more lenient on female rapists than male rapists, statutory or otherwise.

You know what this made me think of? A famous quote.

Life sucks and then you die.
 
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If their roles were to change, everyone would be going crazy about it, but suddenly it's fine since the victim is a guy. It's crazy how much they are trying to romanticize stuff like this. I don't get how people are even enjoying this.
Because of the simple fact that it's fiction and no one was harmed in the making of this mange, maybe?
 

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