I want to get your opinion on something. For awhile now, I've been wanting to make an index of all the times Alan Moore uses rape, attempted rape or sexual assault as a plot device. (Obviously I'm taking a lot of inspiration from WiR.) Rape is used much to

It is one of THE most problematic things in Moore’s work to me (there are often issues of race that are baffling as well). 

Simply put, rape is WAY too often presented as humorous punchline or with elements of victim acceptance.

In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the girls of Pollyanna’s school are raped by the Invisible Man, presented with a humorous tone. POLLYANNA, for Christ’s sake, beloved by little girls for ages, the eternal symbol of girlish optimism.

Which is one of the big reasons why I objected to some of the high ground Alan took for the Before Watchmen thing. I get him being upset. But he’s no stranger to doing grotesque things to other people’s characters himself, and that’s one of the grossest.

There’s some creepy ass stuff there. Being a genius doesn’t excuse it.

Yes, I think, always, that the truth is important. I think a fair, honest assessment is long overdue whatever the results are, vindication or condemnation.