Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160408031352/@comment-27607065-20160409220344

Skyzy wrote: Skyzy wrote: 1. Irresponsible storytelling on NETWORK TV during primetime hours without any advisory for content is what people are complaining about. As to suicides, I haven't heard if any have actually occurred yet but I have directly seen people who weren't triggered with Lexa's or Lincoln's death get triggered by the Raven scene AND the Murphy scene. Code 307 is now being used for Lesbian death tropes, Code 309 is now being used for POC death tropes, and Code 310 is now being used for suicidal/self-harm warnings and rape. '''If they would simply put up a warning for the triggering content, there would probably be less fallout. Even freaking Law & Order: SVU puts up content warnings and they're soooo much more mild than this show (topical vs. visual).''' As I said above, people who have issues with certain things ("triggers") do not have issues with other things. What most people have been complaining about since 3x09 is not censorship but simply putting warnings up prior to the episodes for KNOWN TRIGGERS like almost all other TV shows already do. That way, the person can choose to watch the episode on their own instead of suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a trigger scene with no warning.

Skyzy wrote: 2. Man rape is real. He was her prisoner. He said NO, she threatened his life, he complied. That is rape no matter how you look at it but maybe if you switched out the genders, it might make things a little more clear. If Murphy was a female, there would be no question it was rape.

Murphy was in chains in enemy territory. It didn't matter if he said yes (in fact, he quite explicitly said, "no"). That's rape. Murphy was raped. End of story. There's no warning before hand? I watch it on Netflix the day after, I had always assumed they had a 14+ or something warning on television. And I agree about Murphy. Like I said, I'm sure JR and co. didn't intend for it to seem like rape, but that's what it was. If the characters switched genders no one would even question that it was rape. Ontari was in a position of power over him, he said no, she threatened his life, and he was forced to comply. I doubt he was particularly distraught about it, but that's irrelevant. Rape is rape, and that's what it was.
 * http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization
 * http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale