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\\\"What anyone has to gain is getting their facts straight. Rape isn\\\'t special kind of evil. Saying that raping a person is worse than maiming or murdering that person is a mistake at best.As joeyjojo said, this is double standard and that\\\'s the problem.\\\"
Thing is, while most people would probably prefer to be raped than murdered, you can never say something like \\\"I raped them in self-defense\\\" (barring extreme circumstances), while saying \\\"I killed them in self-defense\\\" could easily be said in a wide number of cases. In that way, having a character who rapes is a much clearer indication of villainous intent than having a character who kills. After all, almost every video game hero is a mass murderer.
Anyway, the only suggestion I have is rewriting the \\\"Having rape in a story will immediately make it DarkerAndEdgier\\\" line to something like \\\"Many writers use rape to make their series DarkerAndEdgier\\\", with maybe a link to RapeAsDrama smooshed in somewhere to indicate that this can fall flat.
Thing is, while most people would probably prefer to be raped than murdered, you can never say something like \\\"I raped them in self-defense\\\" (barring extreme circumstances), while saying \\\"I killed them in self-defense\\\" could easily be said in a wide number of cases. In that way, having a character who rapes is a much clearer indication of villainous intent than having a character who kills. After all, almost every video game hero is a mass murderer.
Anyway, the only suggestion I have is rewriting the \\\"Having rape in a story will immediately make it DarkerAndEdgier\\\" line to something like \\\"Many writers use rape to make their series DarkerAndEdgier\\\", with maybe a link to RapeAsDrama smooshed in somewhere to indicate that this can fall flat.
