Man, nothing says love like refraining from, tying your partner up, and raping them. Just one more piece of evidence, that supports my claim, that japanese take rape too casually.
Have you read Chinese manhua and novels? I don't think it's factual to say Japanese take rape too casually. This whole manga portrait Tio as a very aggressive taker, she says she want to rape Thea, but she never did it because she would never want to hurt Thea. What she's essentially doing is making Thea more aware of her (Tio and Thea's) feeling. It is obvious that Thea has romantic feeling for Tio, but she is hesitant to take a step forward and Tio knows this that's why she keep pushing.
If I have to say it Thea is a coward when it comes to opening up to relationship, she will always run away if someone don't be aggressive with their approach. Tio's method is not "nice", but I think it works best with Thea and once again the rape thing is blown out of proportion in my opinion.
I have a strong hunch, men "being aggressive" is one of the major reasons the Me too movement was started. That whole "She wants me, but she's just too scared to act on it. So all I have to do is give her a push" attitude seems like a recipe for a rape charge, to me.
I admit this story was rather innocuous, but the casual use of rape, is an issue in manga, and anime. While I'm not the type of person who attack people, who like stories with rape in them. I do find it a bit uncomfortable when rape is treated like it's no big deal.
Oh, and just because the chinese have worse attitudes toward rape, doesn't mean the japanese are all good.
The Me Too Movement is another hell hole altogether, personally I think it has too many flaws. I think what I meant is that the Japanese doesn't strike me as taking rape too casually. Taking rape casually seems more of a Chinese thing, unless it is hentai then the rape is treated casually, but in a normal manga I don't see it. I was just giving Chinese as an example of what real casual attitude is, not to say because one is worst the other is better.
I do admit that there are cases out there that this "she wants me, but too scared" happened, but I'm just looking at the clues giving through the manga, not any real life situations. If we talk real life situation there are men being accused of rapes or molestation, but people tend to sympathize women and immediately discredit their stories.
Lets just agree to disagree. I know I've read several manga where rape was used too lightly. The series, Kimi Wa Shoujo, and Happy Sugar Life, comes, immediately to mind, but I know there are others.
The thing is I've heard, admittedly unsubstantiated, stories, about japanese rapist going free. One story where a rapist got his victom pregnant, and the judge let the guy off, because he didn't want to break up a family. It all feeds into my image of japan.
I too don't like people's lives getting ruined by mere accusations, but in the end that's just the nature of the beast. At the heart of it, rape boils down to a he said, she said crime. Men have been getting the benefit of the doubt, pretty much from the beginning of time. That is, if the culture even considered rape a crime. Now the pendulum, is just starting to swing the other way. Men are just going to have to suck it up, and watch their p's and q's. Maybe men will learn to be more sensitive, to women, and women will learn to be more assertive when they want men to back off.
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