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So I have been watching a show, it's called Private Practice (maybe some of you have heard of it; it's the spin off of Grey's Anatomy) and a female character has been raped in that show. In it she says (please, it's a bit "graphic" and adult, reader beware):
You ever been violated? Anybody rape you lately? Let me tell you what its like. You know those made for TV movies where some woman's crouched down naked in a shower holding her knees and sobbing because when she closes her eyes she can still feel the guys hands on her? How when they show the attack the woman's eyes go all blank and still and she goes to some other place in her mind just to deal with the horror of what's happening to her while some Lillith Fair song plays. It is nothing like that. He's sturdy and sweaty and he licks your face and wipes himself off in your hair and when you try to scream he punches you so hard you see God. And then he goes at you again reaping stuff you didn't even know you had because he enjoyed it so much the first time.
I understand this is an Indian drama and they can't be that realistic but they're being too "tv movieish"; crouching down in the shower, so cliche. I think they need to be real, the trauma is more than "he took away my virginity." It's he violated me, he attacked me. I feel like this show is echoing societal values of "virginity" more than showing the real trauma she has undergone. And by being afraid of this guy, she's being more submissive and once again, this show continues the trend of showing women as weak little creatures.
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