Someone Asked...

…so here we go.

One of my big problems with Watchmen is how stupidly the near-rape is handled. And it's EPIC stupid.

It's full of every dumbass cliche there is, and unfortunately, this was common in work of the time.

We have:

Slut Shaming, check.

Woman falls in love with her rapist, check.

Man who object to rape is only doing so because he's gay, check.

Woman at least partly to blame for assault because of her clothes, check.

Man who rapes has oh-so tender spot for victim's daughter (see? He's not so bad, he's just misunderstood!), check.

There are other issues, but if those scenes were in any other book, they would have gotten the loud raspberries they deserve. It's just a bunch of gunk rape cliches, one after another.

I do like the book. But it's not completely unproblematic.