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GOD DAMNIT ARHA!!!!

.... some mod delete my thread...

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!

Sorry, Raso, I felt that as the originator of the idea that I should be the one to go ahead and make the thread once it was agreed that we should do so. Didn't think anyone else would do it if I didn't take the initiative.

Was trying to get rid of the whole "be less prudish" thing that I have been labeled by doing some of the leg work.

I am on the "be less prudish" side but not to that extent of not trying to fix Rape Tropes of all things....

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!

Octo, I'm with you, but let's see how this pans out first. If we keep the creepiness out and put up the disclaimer, I won't be losing any sleep over that.

Should the disclaimer extend to works that use these tropes without parody or pointing out how bad they are? I want to say yes, just to get the point across.

One Piece blog Beyond the Lampshade

Okay, I just went through the Rape Tropes page and the thread blew up while I was gone. Note that I did not look at any of the example lists:

Fate Worse than Death, Slipping a Mickey: Broader than rape (the latter is actually redundant on this index), as are some other tropes below.

And Now You Must Marry Me: Not rape in the modern sense, though with an implication of forced sex.

Mind Rape: Also not literal rape, just a sci-fi variant.

Defiled Forever, Gratuitous Rape, Its Not Rape If You Enjoyed It, Marital Rape License, Old Man Marrying a Child, the "Rape is Okay when It Is X on Y" family (Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male, Rape Is Okay If Its Divine On Mortal, Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male, Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female, Rape Is OK When It Is Sci Fi): This is actually us pointing out Unfortunate Implications of the way rape is treated in fiction (or in the past), which is just the opposite of glorifying rape. The "Rape is Okay" tropes should probably be renamed as, in addition to sounding like we're actually condoning them, they're just plain uncreative titles ultimately attributable to someone who... I'm not going to say what I could say.

Rape as Backstory, Rape as Comedy, Rape as Drama, Rape as Redemption, Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male, Rape Is The New Dead Parents: Similarly, these tropes are pointing out how fiction trivializes rape by portraying Rape as Backstory or Rape as Drama.

All Abusers Are Male, All Men Are Rapists, Murderers Are Rapists, Rape and Switch: More Unfortunate Implications that we're just pointing out.

Netorare Genre: Still not condoning anything.

Droit du Seigneur, Honor-Related Abuse, I Have You Now, My Pretty, I Showed Her What A Real Man Is, Medical Rape and Impregnate, Pedophile Priest, Rape and Revenge, Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil, Rape, Pillage, and Burn, Scarpia Ultimatum, The Women Are Safe with Us: Rapist as villain, or at least unsympathetic. Some of these also fall into the Rape as Backstory / Rape as Drama category.

Child by Rape, Rape Leads to Insanity: Not about the act of rape itself, but still falls in the Rape as Backstory / Rape as Drama category.

False Rape Accusation: No rape actually happens. Just a subtrope of the Wounded Gazelle Gambit.

Attempted Rape, Date Rape Averted, Near-Rape Experience, Symbolic Rape, You're Not My Type: All variations of the theme of "rape that doesn't quite happen" of varying levels of ickyness. Rape Discretion Shot and is in the same spirit for a different reason.

Anal Probing, Mate or Die: Technically could be seen as rape, but not really.

Date Rape, Prison Rape: Actually comes off as People Sit On Chairs (in the latter case, has much the same problem as A Date With Rosie Palms).

Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Not about rape, but iffy nonetheless.

Sex Slave: An odd duck, as on the one hand the description seems to put it in the same category of "objecting to how fiction portrays rape" above, but on the other, by the nature of how it tends to be used for fanservice, I can see it being a magnet for the sorts of examples we don't need.

Aliens Made Them Do It, Bed Trick, Love Potion: Iffy - legit tropes, but I can see why it could be read as "a way to rape people".

Dude, She's Like in a Coma, Naughty Tentacles (pre-nuking), Rape by Proxy, Sexual Extortion, You Would Make a Great Model: "A way to rape people", covered relatively neutrally. Eek.

Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, Rape Is Love: Characters wanting to be raped, covered relatively neutrally. Eek.

Abusively Sexy, Abusively Sexy Woman, But Liquor Is Quicker, Memetic Molester: No. Just... No. (This is without actually looking at the page.)

And Now You Must Marry Me, Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me, Dude, She's Like in a Coma, I Have You Now, My Pretty, I Showed Her What A Real Man Is, The Women Are Safe with Us, You're Not My Type, You Would Make a Great Model: In addition to the above-mentioned assessments, these are all stock phrases.

edited 6th Apr '12 2:50:41 PM by MorganWick

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edited 23rd Jul '17 1:24:19 PM by Jicragg

See the link at the top of this page, Morgan Wick. Please put it all there.

Quest 64 thread

You would be a big help in the special efforts thread.

edited 6th Apr '12 2:53:14 PM by Raso

Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!

Hey, I started when we were only starting to discuss the Rape Tropes. In an hour or two it nearly doubled the size of the thread and got it knocked up (ba dum tish).

Since Special Efforts seems to be focusing on renaming the tropes, where should I post my opinion on the proposed disclaimer? Because it seems like a number of tropes are only related to topics like rape, not actually about rape, and thus condoning them wouldn't make it look like we were condoning rape. For example, we wouldn't want to condone False Rape Accusation, but for a different reason. (This is a problem with indexes in general - have a look at the mess that is the Infernal Tropes index sometime.)

Disclaimer here.

Trope suggestions at the linked topic.

Quest 64 thread

oh my god it's still going

I'm in despair! This thread's level of activity has left me in despair!

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edited 23rd Jul '17 1:20:57 PM by Jicragg

Porn Tropes have been stripped of Real Life sections from Aliens Made Them Do It through and including IKEA Erotica

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

We should add a "No Real Life Examples" thing too.

DAMMIT, THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED TO BE TVTROPES-FAMOUS FOR.

-goes to the Corner of Woe™-

Uh...is it just me, or is that "Other" folder in Zero-G Spot basically a Real Life section in disguise?

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

Mind if I make that my signature?

Yeah, I'd be wary of "Other", "Truth in Television", "History" and such folders. They tend to pop up from time to time.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)

I too believe it rather suspect...

I now go by Graf von Tirol.

There are other tropes where there's nothing to condone or condemn. Fate Worse than Death is a better example of what I'm talking about than what I went with before.

By the way:

To me, that's a sign the headlines aren't working the way they should, though that's off topic for this thread. Ordinarily, this should be the first kind of thing to get a headline. Going through everything we're doing without alerting the people who don't frequent the forums, to me, seems more antagonistic than alerting them to why we're doing it, especially if it doesn't change what ends up happening. If not a headline, this should get a page like The Situation, or an update to that page.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, doesn't look like "other" to me.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

I went ahead and cleaned Zero-G Spot. It was just Real Life examples under another name.

edited 6th Apr '12 4:50:54 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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Rape Tropes cleanup thread

I know we're going Beige Prose on this. Does anyone want to look through Bastard Girlfriend and tell me if the examples are clean enough?

One Piece blog Beyond the Lampshade

Examples look good. Description probably needs to be cleaned. I mean, it starts with "This woman is a rapist, torturer, or Domestic Abuser. And that's awesome."

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