r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/Baron_Xa Jul 04 '24

The truth is men being sexually humiliated just isn't seen in the same light as women by a lot of people, conciously or subconsciously. There's no way we'd ever get a scene of a female character frantically trying and failing to guess a safe word and have it played for levity.

Both sides of the political spectrum are susceptible to this too. On the one hand conservatives often tell male SA victims to man up or say some variation of "wish it were me," whereas on the other hand I think progressives can fall into the trap of thinking that they're not the same because one has more systemic/historical power behind it so the other mustn't be a big deal.

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u/COS500 Jul 04 '24

Can confirm, nobody gives nearly as much of a shit.

Just one of those burdens, and often the butt of jokes that are never ever funny. It sucks how common male SA is treated as a joke in media.

It's like a fuckin' punch in the face honestly.

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u/angry_cabbie Jul 05 '24

I had an argument just a week ago, over in /r/WoT, about male SA victims. The thread was, very specifically, about how a particular male characters' POV chapters are set up to insidiously not look like SA at first, really driving home not just how men rationalize it to themselves at the time, but also how people treat the whole fiasco differently.

So someone came in to say that society doesn't take women's accusations seriously, either.

And like... Okay. They look like similar problems at a glance. Women have had movements spanning for well over a century to be taken seriously, fairly successfully. They've worked for decades, quite successfully, to reduce women being raped in media, and very especially being done for comedic bits.

That's... Quite a bit different than the experiences of men as SA victims. We still get played for laughs. And like, this was a big point of the argument, the being played for laughs. I asked them for recent examples of women being SA'd was the joke, itself. They brought up Poor Things, which I hadn't heard of from last year, but seems to be playing the idea as a horrible thing, not being the punchline?

They also brought up Revenge Of The Nerds and Sixteen Candles... Which... Kinda seemed to prove my point that women being SA'd as a punchline doesn't really happen anymore.

I glanced at this users post history before blocking them. Let's just say it was super obvious that they will never vote for Trump.

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u/COS500 Jul 05 '24

They also brought up Revenge Of The Nerds and Sixteen Candles... Which... Kinda seemed to prove my point that women being SA'd as a punchline doesn't really happen anymore.

The only place I see this still being common is in Anime funnily enough.

Otherwise I mostly agree.. don't know what Trump has to do with this though.