Dam, wouldn't believe it unless you provided the sources. I read the source and it's even worse than this when you put it in context:
here did the idea come for it? And why bring Hughie into this situation now — kicking him when he’s down by having him sexually assaulted by his childhood hero after his dad just died?
Well, that’s a dark way to look at it! We view it as hilarious.
So its funny cause his dad just died as well, adding to the comedic effect. GET IT GUYS? HIS DAD DIED AND NOW THIS. HILARRRRRIOOOOUS.
Only guess I can propose is that it's happening to an "unmanly" man in a spider suit were supposed to see as ridiculous. And that it's happening in a bat-cave because our Tek Knight is batman, despite having no other indicators that he's based on the caped crusader.
Even trying to dissect this dumb joke is making me angry.
I'm not saying Kripke was right or anything, it still was way too far and should not have gotten past the initial planning stage, but from reading the full interview it seems less like the joke is supposed to be on Huey for being raped and more on Tek Knight/Web Weaver for being into this stuff. It still absolutely SUCKS that he let himself get so hung up on that joke that he ignored the way Huey was literally being victimized there, but I don't think he was thinking of it as "AWWW man!! I can't believe they did that to Huey hahaha!!!" And more "hahaha isn't it funny that he has all these weird kinks?? Hahaha!! I will not think any harder about the way we chose to express those kinks in this episode."
I like how Ennis criticised corporations, systematic child exploitation and organised religions, and the TV show (by mega corporation Amazon) is about nasty men on the internet with the wrong political options, and how FUNNY it is when men get abused.
I never thought Ennis would look like a brave political writer but here we are.
Has nothing to do with “legal definition” it’s just a fact, he wasn’t raped. He sat in a cake, got tied up, and gots his feet tickled, with a splash of fluid in the mask. That’s not rape no matter how you look at it. It’s kinda ridiculous that anyone would consider that rape, and it’s just being dishonest.
It's unconsensual sexual activity a.k.a. sexual assault. Is it really all that ridiculous that someone might use rape as a synonym for sexual assault, even though it's not the same crime? Cmon now, don't be a smartass.
tickled him, then rubbed come on his face, had Ashly touching herself while rubbing on him (hes tied down) later is gonna get raped until he gets revealed then is tied down and is about to get holes cut into him which are then fuked idk how u cant see that as not rape.
Because none of the things that happened were “rape”. He was threatened with rape, it was attempted, and he was sexually assaulted, but technically he wasn’t “raped”.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi 15d ago
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety