Quote: Dave said: I was wondering when someone would raise that specifically.
The context is a fantasy medium, filled with women with enlarged breasts and fishnet stockings. It depicts a scene of a woman getting raped. Other characters react violently against the character. That doesn't erase the fact that rape was depicted in a fantasy medium.
But you see Sue isnt the fishnet big boobie chick is she? She is the wife of superhero....having her raped really adds to the emotion of it all and the reaction of the other capes and them worrying about that happening to their loved ones.
I understand your emotions re: rape but in this case I really dont think it was rape for rapes sake. I think it was to engage the reader to feel that raw emotion of one of their loved ones getting assaulted. It would NOT have worked having it happen to ANY hero as that would just make that hero look weak and not pitied.
It is easier for a male to become emotionally charged about the rape of a loved as that is more pallitable to most males as the block the thought that they to can be raped.
That makes more sense to me than anything else I've read here - particualrly as you point out that it was not Black Canary or Zatanna, in their fishnets, who were raped. While I see your point, I'm still not entirely convinced. While the rape might doubly serve as a vehicle for the plot, it still stands as a rape in a fantasy medium. There might be some literary merit to using it, but the fact remains.
