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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7895029" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Art can approach the issue, in general. That does not mean all mediums and genres of are good places for the subject.</p><p></p><p>There is a problem that you <em>cannot</em> do the issue justice in a 40 minutes of screen time in a crime drama. And, you will <em>not</em> be handling it well when five minutes later you are worried about whether or not you cleave an orc. </p><p></p><p>For purposes of this thread, you'll notice that the focus is on the villain, the perpetrator - what depraved things do you have your villain do to signal that the villain is evil? "See? The Count is Evil. He raped someone!" This is the #1 trite approach to rape in fiction - using it as a flag for "this person is bad" - like the trauma is a convenient way to quickly slap a label on a character. </p><p></p><p>This isn't addressing rape in art. It is using rape as a tool to make things easy for the artist.</p><p></p><p>If you want to deal with rape in art, having the focus be on the perpetrator is unlikely to be effective, or artistic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7895029, member: 177"] Art can approach the issue, in general. That does not mean all mediums and genres of are good places for the subject. There is a problem that you [I]cannot[/I] do the issue justice in a 40 minutes of screen time in a crime drama. And, you will [I]not[/I] be handling it well when five minutes later you are worried about whether or not you cleave an orc. For purposes of this thread, you'll notice that the focus is on the villain, the perpetrator - what depraved things do you have your villain do to signal that the villain is evil? "See? The Count is Evil. He raped someone!" This is the #1 trite approach to rape in fiction - using it as a flag for "this person is bad" - like the trauma is a convenient way to quickly slap a label on a character. This isn't addressing rape in art. It is using rape as a tool to make things easy for the artist. If you want to deal with rape in art, having the focus be on the perpetrator is unlikely to be effective, or artistic [/QUOTE]
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