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Seems like a complaint about factual inaccuracies in the description. Good case study of why we prefer not to put Real Life commentary on contentious tropes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanThe original post isn't the only thing that's wall of text. That Rape leads to Insanity description is long.
Cleanup time? Something else? Particularly since a quick scan has a lot of Real Life material jumping out at me. Far more then is needed for an 'in real life' note.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettAll that real life needs is something along the lines of: This can be Truth in Television, but as often as not it isn't. No two people react to a traumatic experience in exactly the same way and there is no "right way" to cope with the trauma.
This signature says something else when you aren't looking at it.In general, I think a trope description should only discuss Real Life as far as it's relevant for how the trope is used in fiction (for example, the trope could be unrealistic because it describes something that is very unlikely in real life as an expected event). Otherwise we just open up to soapboxing.
Rewrote that definition, noted one poorly written example (then another, and another...) and made additional fixes for Example indentation and tried to get more concise for several.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.Sorry for the wall of text. I have trouble being concise sometimes, and the matter of the psychological affects of rape is really complicated. But while yeah the main point I had was that it's a very complex and very sensitive subject matter, to the point that it'd be a piece of cake to make statements that belittle someone's experience or struggles. It most certainly does have some Truth in Television, but statements concerning this aspect of the trope need to be very carefully chosen I think, considering the subject matter itself. Anyway, thank you very much for the change.
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I've been somewhat concerned for some time about the contents of the trope page Rape Leads to Insanity. Some parts of the description seem to touch on how it is in the real world and then say some things that could be easily misconstrued. For instance, one spot says that it's ultimately the victim's personality rather than the nature of the assault that determines the person's reaction. That's not a far stretch from saying that it's the victim's fault if they're traumatized by rape, especially when you also have entire paragraphs that declare "most" take sexual assault "calmly". Since this was placed right after a note of Truth in Television, it seems that a great deal of care should be taken for both accuracy and sensitivity. It's extremely easy to swing between two extremes here, deliberately or otherwise implying either that trauma is a big enough thing that a visibly stable person probably wasn't really raped, or that it's abnormal to suffer any sort of major breakdown (thus shaming those that do suffer, including a large number that display a good face to hide how much they're hurting). Truth of the matter is, no matter the specific statistics, sexual assault does create a major increase to the risk of numerous trauma-related problems as well as a variety of extremely dangerous methods of self-medication and even suicide, but not a guarantee. Worse, one of the common and more dangerous "coping" mechanisms is basically the Stepford Smiler, putting on a happy face and trying to convince everyone, even themselves, that they're fine when really they're more like a ticking time bomb waiting for the pain to find an out. So information strung along after that Truth in Television label should be carefully worded.
Also, along those lines, is there actual statistical data to demonstrate a significant benefit to the victim when their attacker is caught and dealt with? Beyond the initial matter of said attacker's ability to return of course. I know that many fiction works, particularly law and order type stories, insist that confronting the attacker and making them pay is an important step in the healing process, but I honestly haven't seen any actual studies to back up any real guarantee. Instead, it seems like, similar to other matters, it depends a great deal on both the person and the nature of the trauma: some may be best simply knowing the person won't/can't get to them without ever having to see that face again, while others might not be able to move forward until they've stared their nightmare in the face. The second is more appealing and thus more common in fiction, but is it really also "truth"?
Edited by Lyner