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tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
2016-11-16 14:40:21

Holy wall of text batman!

No seriously, I'm having a hard time parsing what you are saying because you have a giant wall of text I have to plow through. Care to summarize that all in a couple sentences please?

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2016-11-16 15:01:42

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.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-11-16 20:25:19

The 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 Pratchett
Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2016-11-16 21:35:43

All 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.

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GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2016-11-17 06:33:34

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.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2016-11-17 07:32:16

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.
tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
2016-11-17 11:05:19

Awesome job Samaritan! have an internet cookie!

NubianSatyress Since: Mar, 2016
2016-11-17 11:47:32

I added one small point about gaslighting, which I hope isn't asking too much.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2016-11-18 06:33:20

It's stepping on the toes of the Real Life issues that were present, but I do think that's a valid execution of the trope itself so I have no inclination to remove it.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Lyner Since: Sep, 2014
2016-11-18 09:23:48

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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