Gender Flip

[Riley]

This is a serious question about something I saw in a webcomic. Warning: This is about (attempted) sexual assault.

Anywho, in this webcomic, a werewolf guy is kidnapped by a she-wolf whose been obsessed with him for years. She plans on raping him so that his girlfriend, another, more powerful werewolf, rejects him; Meaning the other can claim the guy as her mate. The mean she-wolf doesn't go through with it. That doesn't stop the guy's girlfriend from finding them...

...Aaand breaking up with her boyfriend, assuming he was cheating on her.

I have to ask: If a guy saw his girlfriend get (almost) sexually assaulted and break up with her, thinking she was cheating, would that make people angry? Just curious.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

I have to ask: If a guy saw his girlfriend get (almost) sexually assaulted and break up with her, thinking she was cheating, would that make people angry? Just curious.

Well sexual assault implies forceful handling of the victim so I would think it's easier to distinguish between wilful and involuntary sexual acts in the first place.

Personally I guess I know I might not know the full story of what has happened since I wasn't there at the time. I tend to add into the equation of what the worst result would be. Is a man getting blamed for thinking his girlfriend was cheating on him when in fact it was assault worse than for a person not to be recognised for being a victim of sexual assault?

 

[When In Rome]

A fair example of why such publications, for me anyway, are ones to avoid.

 

[Judge]

To be honest, I think you're better off pondering such critical and controversial concerns based on reality-based information rather than fantasy or science fiction.

The odds of you being accosted by a werewolf are rather poor. The odds of a sexual assault by a human? Well, let's just say they are considerably higher.

On occasion fictional works can be very enlightening in terms of real-life situations. But I wouldn't dream of relying on them for perspective on anything and everything.