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[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is about rape, so yeah. The telling of trauma is intentional.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Oh ok, I see it now. It seemed abstract at first glance.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Totally. It is a bit abstract, or perhaps Dada or Surrealism inspired. It could be said that trauma is baked into those movements.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Sometimes to properly show the horrors of the real you have to leave the real behind

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I read it as about menstruation

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Interesting. The sexual assault reading comes from the artist.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh interesting. I definitely see that now. I thought it was “passion according to gh”

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

I hate that I could tell what it was about without looking at the comments :/

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Seems like a good depiction of what it's like to be forced to carry your rapist's baby

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This book is psychedelic.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I wish someone would fuck me like that... 😮‍💨

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Joking about rape is not cool.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I mean, the comic is so vague you can interpret that as not being about rape.

In which case they are joking about sex. Which is cool.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And where is the context stating this art is explicitly about rape? I just see a spooky black creature stretching out a lady's body like some Cronenberg body horror.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I thought it was about depression or other mental struggles before seeing the comments explicitly saying otherwise. I don't think your comment was out of line given that you didn't know the author was depicting rape.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

I just assumed it was about this:

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I didn't really interpret the art as rape. I could see that, but I originally saw it as some surreal horror story.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Doubt that's what they're doing. Also come be CNC kink.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Things that are common among rape survivors as coping mechanisms:

-Dark humor about rape
-Fantasizing about sex that looks like rape as a way to reestablish a feeling of control

These are not universal experiences - everyone processes differently - but they are common. Feeling shame about them is also common, or being told that they invalidate victimhood.

I believe you're trying to help, so I'm not mad at you. But you aren't helping.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Hmm.. How would those survivors feel reading others joking about rape though? Without knowing what place it comes from?

I don't think we would want to normalize "joking about rape" on the Internet as "okay".

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

How would those survivors feel when they’re shamed by you?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Embarrassed at making insensitive jokes in public where other survivors could be very offended by it?

Being a survivor does not mean you get to do whatever you want. And I would expect them to understand that their way of coping may not be everyone's way of coping, especially if it's through dark humor. And they would be sensitive to the fact that others could be very upset by it. Time, place and context matter.

But seriously - I'm being voted down on Lemmy because I'm saying "hey maybe we shouldn't make rape jokes 'a thing'"???

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's interesting how the first and final frames have similar poses.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Jesus christ what’s going on here?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Depiction of rape

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

nsfw label would had been appreciated...

this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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