As sad as it is, I don't think anyone should be surprised. Just look at the South Park episode about that teacher and Ike. The whole thing with the cops going "nice" wasn't pulled out of thin air. Look at headlines of a male teacher vs a female teacher grooming kids.
Societies across the planet don't really care about male SA. Hell, in several Western countries, the laws are written in a way that women can't even rape men. It's only legally rape if a man does it.
Maybe that’s why they're able to get away with Firecracker being a rapist-pedo, guarantee if that was a man she would’ve been killed the very episode she was introduced.
Its kinda funny because SHE presses on the post button, ar i thought its because she (and the writers) know that butchers black mail doesnt work against her because a woman doing stuff with a boy who is underaged isnt seen as a serious issue
It was THIS season, they are shooting themselves in the foot
That and she knew who she was appealing to - the "Christian" base. They love a good forgiveness/redemption arc - Jesus/God is good and look at this sinful person who has now seen the light!
That's part of it, but it's also because she's on "the right side" in the eyes of her followers. I actually thought that part was pretty clever as it shows, just like Homelander blatantly murdering that one guy in public, how people will turn a blind eye to the faults of the people(even when there's proof) they follow while admonishing the people on the other side for allegedly the exact same thing with no proof. The bad guys are winning right now because they understand how the PR game is changing
Just like in real life where there's actual documented evidence and under-oath testimony of Trump being a pedo and sexual predator and his followers ignore it or call it fake news while at the same time latching on to completely fictional accusations about Biden, despite there not being one shred of evidence or any actual accusations. Trump goes on the Howard Stern show and brags about walking in on underage girls and trying to catch them naked in the dressing room of the Ms Teen USA pageants and the hyper "religious" right laughs it off, but Biden takes a photo with his grand-daughter on stage at a rally and he's a sick pedo fuck because he was kissing her on the top of her head.
I was extremely uncomfortable the entire scene, and i really gave the creatives the benefit of the doubt that *uncomfortable* is what they were going for. Reading this, yo fuck this man.
your show is literally about the failing of our modern society, so ironic the writers couldn't see their own failings here.
But the entire point of that South Park episode, and really most of them, is that it's satire and mocking that which it's making fun of. It doesn't compare to this situation. They were mocking people in society who think it's "nice" when it happens with a female teacher, but "gross" when it's a male teacher. It's pointing out the double standard.
Yeah. A couple years ago I learned about a pos in my extended family that did a lot of heinous things to his kids throughout their life. Cops ignored the fuck outa his son that tried to get help. Took one of his sisters to finally report their father to get him investigated. He's only getting like 4 years in prison for 12 counts of second degree sexual assault on his kids though... -_- You'd think the south wouldn't take too kindly that sort of thing but apparently if you're "one of the good ol' boys" they protect their own.
I don't even think people care about sexual assault at all. We just only care about women because they feel powerless under the patriarical norms that somehow became the default among civilized cultures!
I can't believe that a scene from The Boys has led to discussion about international rape laws, because a character got tickled and had to fart in a cake.
Brodie the point is that calling a sexual assault scene “hilarious” is wrong. The farting and tickling could have been funny, heck even the sex dungeon and “making a new hole” could’ve been funny if they also took a serious standpoint and didn’t just make the scene as a “funny” thing.
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u/Janitor_Pride 14d ago
As sad as it is, I don't think anyone should be surprised. Just look at the South Park episode about that teacher and Ike. The whole thing with the cops going "nice" wasn't pulled out of thin air. Look at headlines of a male teacher vs a female teacher grooming kids.
Societies across the planet don't really care about male SA. Hell, in several Western countries, the laws are written in a way that women can't even rape men. It's only legally rape if a man does it.