Current mood:

irritated

A teeny little X-Files Rapefic wank!
We've established here in the past that the shippers over at the XF Haven don't much like stories dealing with rape.

And in this wank, we met Kassie/foxytime, who has a theory that Mulder may have raped Scully. Which, unpopular among the shippers, sure, but not so much with the wanky, until you notice this comment regarding the kerfuffle and the shippers in her LJ:



(my emphasis in bold)

Morons they are.

I wonder how they would have reacted if I said I believed Scully was raped by CSM, Krycek, Knowle, etc. Ya know, anyone but Mulder.

At least I know fiction from reality - I saw a collage over on the Creative board that was called "Possession" (sarah mclachlan's lyrics) and it was a MSR collage (using GA & DD images - no M&S whatsoever) and the replies to it were how sweet and enchanting and cute... do they know what the song "Possession" is about? Maybe they don't ever want to see parts of the world as it really is.

I could have gone into the fact (on the LJ community) that most rapes are done to a victim by someone they know (ie: Mulder/Scully). The shippers just wouldn't hear of it. I think they perceive all rapist as the violent kind, but the rapist profile is the "Power Rapist: Manhood reassurance", I go into the characteristics and behaviour of this rapist in a thread at The Bee Dome message board and include my thoughts on how Mulder fits it well.

I think the shippers see the M&S relationship as the perfect relationship - one which all relationships should be based on. That worries me because I've seen a friend date someone just because he was so "Mulder" and he was emotionally abusive and it wouldn't have surprised me if he threatened violence, he ran her life while she was with him for 3 years, and she was afraid to leave him, and even when she did, she went back to him a few times believing he deserved a 2nd and 3rd chances. I believe this is how the M&S relationship is, Mulder has separated Scully from any real friends and has grown distance between her and her family - that's what sexually abusive partners do. Mulder has done just that.

(If I'm ranting, tell me to stop)

The thing is that the majority of this fanbase is shipper and other opinions are disregarded so easily by them, and I feel that I should be able to express my thoughts and theories just like anyone else. I wasn't going to post that collage anywhere, but that would mean letting the shippers be the only ones to express theories (like how they believe that M&S had sex in "all things"... considering the mental state Scully was in, do you really think Mulder would have disrespected her at that time by having sex with her? I don't think so).

Then there's the one that decided to say she is a victim of rape so far into the debate and that the whole discussion triggered her. I have my doubts on that, and then all I can think is it's her own fault, she saw what the topic was about, if she knew she had been raped she should have known that the topic would trigger her. That's not my fault and it is no reason for her to "throw flames" and namecall.

*sighs* I should step down off my soapbox...

(Okay, so people who are fans of a fictional romantic pairing can't recognize an abusive relationship in real life? Ooops, seem to have gotten a little wank on myself here. Moving along...)

In any case, Kassie's rapefic is not "your typical fic" and she's going to prove to the dumb shippers who can't separate fanfiction from, er, reality (even though we must bear in mind that Mulder and the XF gang aren't exactly, you know, real, but since Kassie has decided that Mulder *could* be a rapist, that *must* be reality. Or something) that Mulder is the rapin' type. She posted to the Haven a while back to pimp her almost finished story, and didn't get what you'd call a warm reception. More like, "Boo hiss! We don't wanna read your nasty rapefic!" and "You do know that this is a MSR board, right?" and "Wow, you're gonna have to work really hard to get me to believe that scenario."

So the fic is finally finished. And Kassie posts a link to it. Ladies and gentleman, start your wank engines.

It's not too bad, but there's a few great moments. Particularly chuckleworthy is the "Mulder is rape" colorbar.