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28 September 12

Anonymous asked: She humanized Batman, but she also wrote Tarantula raping Nightwing, then handled it very poorly. She doesn't seem to know the definition of rape, either. "For the record, I’ve never used the word 'rape', I just said it was non-consensual." Non-consensual sex *is* rape, and always will be.

Yeah, I wasn’t reading many comics at this point and heard about it later. I can’t defend it, I don’t understand the thinking behind it and to this day, I haven’t actually read it. People do misfire. I can’t really speak for Devin but it’s a very, very odd choice, as much as I love her and her writing.

  1. daggerpen said: Absolutely not defending it, but didn’t she explicitly call it rape in the script? Still shitty, but that type of backtracking feels like editorial directive. (Again: told to or not, the nonconsensual line is still shitty.)
  2. schwathing said: Actually the strict, legal definition of rape must involve penetration by a penis, hence only men can commit rape. What women commit on men is considered sexual assault… I think. At least by the Singapore system, and the Brit one it’s based on.
  3. lifewithmike said: I always loved Devin’s Titans run. I’d love for her to come back to comics.
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