"Date Rapes are Romantic!", or, How Screw Up can a Girl's Take on Romace Get?

[emmuzka]

I can't say that this is good fan fic meta, but it just occurred to me that SGA fic is now suffering for the illnesses of a major fandom. Add a year or two and it might start to degenerate.

Bad fics are among us. they must be tolerated, because everyone of us is young or a first timer once. And if the author continues on her bad ways? Well, they can't be all good. The whole idea of fan fic writing is that anyone can write it, so no complains here.

But. Have you noticed that there are growing number of fics that make you scream of injustice? Fics that are against your mental image of how the societies work? If I have to read one more fic of "He raped him but it's perfectly okay because really they are in love!", I have to hurt somebody. Do these writers have a screwed up view of the world or what? Are they people who think that in the real world, date rape would be romantic?

Let me give you a few examples. In Little Fishes by Anna Isabelle, John has hard sex with Rodney while Rodney is heavily drugged with the whole purpose of making him submissive. John struggles with his conscience for about two seconds before letting loose and to the issue of borderline consensual/non-consensual sex is not faced in the rest of the story. Because they are in love, right?

The other example is a more famous one:Miracles and Little Miracles by Master Elayna. In these fics john acts like a jerk against Rodney, ordering him to stop hugging other people and overall putting him sumbolically between an owen and a fist. And what does Rodney do? Does he say, at least once, "You can't order me around, I'm a grown man"? No, he doesn't.

This is a pretty good fic, a nice read, and the whole time I'm thinking that the writer is heading for the story about abusive relationship and how Rodney gets out of it. But no! The writer lets them stay like that. When she was confronted about that in the comments of her original lj-post, she just said that she thought that John ordering Rodney around was *romantic*! what kind of books has the author been reading, and can I burn them?

Where does these kind of fic come from? Who teaches girls to think that this kind of thought pattern, even in a story, would be good?

Comments

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

I think that depends on the store, the bigger markets have romantic soft covers on a separate shelf and smaller ones have them on a spindly thing near the cash register. Hum.
Why do I have so clear idea about this? Seriously.:D
My subconscious is clearly perverted.