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Telling a man they should've enjoyed it, is the exact equivalent to telling a woman she should've enjoyed it.
do you think bucky was sexually abused? that Selby scene in tfatws makes me wonder every single time
Thanks for the question.
I’ve tagged this post but just in case tumblr glitches, trigger warnings for: rape, sexual abuse, dissociation, sexual assault, imprisonment, torture, war, ptsd, mind control. I’ve probably missed others so read at your own risk 😬
The short answer is yes.
The longer answer is 1) unethical human experimentations were rife during WW2, and Hydra is supposed to represent the worst of them; 2) super soldiers were highly sought after for decades and we’ve seen no evidence it could be reproduced from Bucky’s blood, therefore they are likely to try more direct methods of reproducing a super soldier; 3) sexual violence is common during conflicts, and male survivors of war-related sexual violence are increasingly being recognised as a large population of silent sufferers; 4) dissociation may have been something Hydra wanted to achieve as part of Bucky’s mind control, and dissociative symptoms are commonly linked with extensive sexual abuse.
Before I go to the super long essay, I just wanted to say that the scene in TFATWS was most likely written as a snide joke (cos rape jokes are funny amirite, especially if a guy is the victim), but Bucky fans have read it straight because his traumatic past makes that suggestion a real possibility. Unfortunately, in the context of Zemo’s comment and Selby’s leer, that adds a possibility that I haven’t mentioned above — which is that Hydra wasn’t just sexually abusing Bucky as a power play or to break his mind, but they were deriving pleasure from the acts and offering him up for sexual favours…which, is so deep in HTP territory that it…says a lot about the sheltered life the creators live to pass that off as a joke.
1. Experimentation on POWs were horrendous during WW2. I happened to click on a collection of Japanese war crimes but the Nazis led a lot of the unethical research on their own front. For those who (rightly) don’t want to click, the Japanese were doing stuff like forcing prisoners to have sex with each other so they can infect the woman with syphilis and then forcefully impregnate female prisoners, then experiment on their babies. Or they were experimenting on prisoners to see the limits of physiology, like submitting them to severe frostbite, animal blood transfusions, unsafe vaccines, deliberate infections, and likely other drugs and poisons.
Prisoners were seen as subhuman, and particularly if you take the headcanon that Bucky may have been Jewish, there would have been very little ethical incentive holding Hydra back. Especially with the heightened healing ability, Bucky would have been a matter of great curiosity (not a good thing when you’re an experimental subject and a prisoner) and would have been subjected to inhumane experiments you and I couldn’t even dream up.
2. Now put this in the context of super soldiers being extremely sought after as a commodity. I use the word commodity because none of them have been afforded rights like humans. We know canonically, that experimentation on trying to create super soldiers continued for much of the 20th century. There were the unethical experiments on Isaiah’s squad, the “Winter Soldier program”, the Hulk, that Russian dude and probably more we haven’t yet heard of. This means that for those 70 years Bucky was imprisoned, Hydra wanted more of him, but ones that were lower maintenance, easier to control and believed their own values. We already talked about how they have no ethical limits on what experiments they might do. Without going into details, but when you for some reason can’t get more serum from his blood or recreating the formula, and you don’t want to or can’t clone, then the method left is reproduction by harvesting sperm.
3. As I’ve mentioned above (and if you clicked through to the article), sexual violence were extremely common during war and occupation against female prisoners. But what about towards men? Turns out, it’s not rare at all, except like many incidences of male survivors of sexual violence, it’s not talked about publicly if at all.
The proportion of affected victims are devastatingly high. This article addresses conflicts in Africa, but I can’t think of any cultural reasons why it would be different in Nazi-occupied Europe.
If you can stomach the article, it talks about the social pressures that prevent men from speaking up. The shame of being seen as emasculated, the strict gender roles enforced by society, the fear of losing their social supports and their loved ones. These are all psychological pressures that would have been relevant in Bucky’s time, given the general poor acceptance of sodomy and male victimhood, as well as (depending on your headcanon) his own perception of his sexuality, which may already be negative due to internalised queerphobia. The flip side of all this, of course, is that sexual violence is an effective torture method to cause shame, fear, self-doubt and suffering. It is a kind of pain that I have no doubt perpetrators understand the permanence of. There is no light at the end of the tunnel, there is no possibility of comfort even should they get back to their old lives, as all these male victims could do is to live in endless silent suffering. Importantly, it fractures your sense of identity especially if a large part of that is tied into enforced gender roles.
4. Lastly, while Bucky’s mind-control is movie science, I think dissociation, derealisation and depersonalisation are an integral part of his mind control process. Sebastian spoke of his headcanon that Bucky was “in a dream like state”, which sounds like derealisation.
And this scene of him placidly letting the Hydra scientists work on him and not responding to Pierce’s questions could be an episode of dissociation.
Dissociation is likely something Hydra wanted to achieve. We know that dissociation is very common in victims of prolonged sexual abuse. That is not to say that physical abuse alone couldn’t have caused dissociation. I haven’t looked up data for this but I’ve seen amputees describe the surreal and recurring flashbacks of seeing their limb beside their body and we know, canonically, that Bucky was awake to remember at least one stage of his amputation, so that alone might cause dissociative symptoms. That said, unless Bucky was already dissociating reliably, Hydra would try to worsen his dissociation by causing other trauma, and sexual violence as mentioned earlier causes the type of psychological injury that makes him vulnerable to them further degrading his sense of identity and self-belief.
Mm, I agree with your thought about the first episode. It took me until ep 9 to know my feelings were correct due to the flashback at the Mr. Robot shop. At the series finale, Ep 10, things really snapped in place for me.
Can we talk about 4x07 and 4x08 please
My most toxic opinion is that I'm glad the ending of Game of Thrones sucked
The show revelled in seeing how much gratuitous sexual assault and misogynistic ultraviolence it could shoehorn in, far beyond the point of justification
It was objectively indefensible for practically half its entire run and yet people who should have known better continued to watch and support it
So I for one am overjoyed that the reward everyone got for sticking with a show that normalised torture-porn levels of brutality in "prestige" television was realising they'd just wasted the last decade of their life
You got what you deserved
TW/CW: Mentions of Sexual Assault (Nothing shown), Kaeya being an alcoholic
I love this man so much. I need mfers to stop trying to take advantage of him 😥
Y la culpa no era mía, ni dónde estaba ni cómo vestía. El violador eres tú.
"And the fault isn't mine, where I was or how I dress. You are the rapist."
Those are the translated lyrics of the Latin feminist hymn originated in Chile.
The lyrics have been criticized by anti-feminists (specially in mexico) and so many women started tweeting about their experience with sexual assault (where they were and what they were wearing) accompanied by the lyrics and DataPopMX just released some statistics based on 2,832 tweets:
In 68% of the sexual assaults occurred between 4 and 6 years old, they wore pajamas and were in family home.
In 26% of the sexual assaults occurred between 4 and 6 years old, they wore children's clothes and were in family home.
In 87% of the sexual assaults occurred between 9 and 11 years old, they wore their school uniform and were in family home.
In 59% of the sexual assaults occurred between 14 and 16 years old, they wore shorts and were on the street.
In 76% of sexual assaults occurred between 19 and 21 years old, they wore jeans and were at a friend's place.
In 8% of sexual assaults occurred between 19 and 21 years old, they wore skirts and were in public transport.
Of the 2,832 tweets in total 31% (877) occurred between 4 and 6 years old.
Donald Trump and Republican supporters of SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh have engaged in victim blaming Kavanaugh’s accuser. They insist that if Kavanaugh really did something wrong, then his accuser would have immediately come forward to report the crime.
#WhyIDidntReport is a hashtag where survivors of rape, sexual assault and molestation are sharing their reasons why they didn’t report their assaults.
This happens far too much, and it is heartbreaking.
Who does Betsy Devos even think she is? I stand with sexual assault victims and survivors. This goes against any good moral compasses.
Giving rapists rights under the guise of “fairness” is seriously evil. A rapist can CROSS EXAMINE their victim? LITERALLY FUCK YOU
something that i really like about blue eye samurai, now that im thinking about it, is that it discusses violence against women without becoming torture porn. like, in a lot of media that portrays women's issues, they show you that scene. like they give you this extended visual of a woman experiencing something traumatic and then laud themselves as feminist for doing so.
blue eye samurai doesn't do that. the whole show is set in a world that is extremely antagonistic toward women, and it makes a point to tell you that being a woman right now sucks, because they are property and are used sexually. but even though it doesn't shy away from this, it doesn't show you the violence itself, which you would almost expect it to because of how graphic the rest of the show is.
im thinking specifically of kinuyo. they very well could have shown us a scene of her being abused, but they didn't. they didn't show the abuse itself, but they did show how it affected her. they showed her seeing a doctor for her sores. they could have made this incredibly traumatic and grotesque scene a spectacle, showing us exactly how powerless she is and how powerful he is. they could have shown us this incredibly triggering event in full detail for our entertainment, but they didn't. they chose not to. and i think that's how it should be.
it is not necessary to have an extended visual and auditory reenactment of violence against women. we the audience understood the gravity of the situation and were able to empathize without needing that scene. having that scene would have completely detracted from the point they are trying to make. it would have turned something completely reprehensible that women everywhere fear because it's a very real issue into entertainment.
people need to realize that sexual harassment & assault can happen in women's only spaces. and cis straight women can and are frequent perpetrators (sexual harassment & assault do not require attraction). & the idea that women are just naturally safe to be around makes it harder for victims to speak up and be taken seriously because "but we're all girls! it's fine if I deny your autonomy if we're girls it's just a fun joke :)"
if you want to make women's spaces safer for victims of sexual assault, you need to focus on empowering ALL victims & not making sweeping generalizations based in bigotry.
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Even if your not reading it, please reblog. I want this to get
Tw: s3xual h4rassment
Hi everyone. So remember sober husk? Aka @/ember-oc?
He was racist, and blamed it on his sleep deprivation. I know, pretty fucked up. I'd think by now he'd learnt his lesson. But no, instead he continues to be a horrible person.
Being racist to multiple people, and now engaging in a non-consenual s3xual relationship with someone who clearly wanted nothing to do with him.
He s3xually harassed them. It disgusts me to see how FUCKED people can be sometimes.
Here is proof.
Why are the msgs edited? They said they kept misspelling things which I can confirm. They do misspell a lot. And imagine being put in THIS situation. Imagine how traumatized and scared they were. Yes, they're going to misspell.
This is disgusting. The most degenerative, diabolical shit I have ever seen.
Not only forcing someone to e-s3x with them, even making them do dirty things on VC?
Its absolutely foul. He needs to take accountability, apologize for the shit he has done. He cant just sit in silence and not expect consequences. For now, it seems his blog is inactive. Despite that, I still demand an apology from this cowardly fuck.
Its so surprising to see him stoop this low, getting off to a person he didnt meet irl. Its pathetic.
Dont just like. Reblog.
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The police caught and arrested him. But despite the heinous and violent crimes he was credibly accused of, he was released without bail. He was free for three months AFTER police discovered that he was abusing 12 underage black girls.
Chrystul Kizer was raped and trafficked by this man for years.
She’s now facing life in prison for defending herself against her attacker.
Free Chrystul Kizer!!!
Pls spread help spread the news!
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apologies if this seems intrusive, but I couldn’t help but read that Cartman’s CSA trauma is canon in the show? forgive me, I’ve only watched a few really early season episodes spratically + the creek episodes + the movie, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything evidencing it?
in other words is it alright if I ask for what the evidence is? asking out curiously for cartman and genuine curiosity from not knowing
/nm/nf
All good 👍 and yeah there's a bunch of examples in the show, they never outright explicitly state that's what's happening, but there's subtext there.
TW for CSA ofc
Cow days (s2e13)
Cartman gets a concussion which causes him to believe he's a Vietnamese Prostitute, by the end of the episode when he's back to normal he says something about having a dream where he was a prostitute, rode a bull, and was "spanked by Leonardo DiCaprio" and when the boys tell him it really was a dream, a limo drives up and DiCaprio leans out and thanks him for last night
The Simpsons Already Did it (s6e7)
When Eric buys Sea People and finds out that when he combines semen with the seapeople it causes them to become civilized. (It's a lot to explain if you haven't seen it I know it's weird) So he goes to get more, and when he comes back with some he explains that some guy in an alley told him to "just close his eyes and suck it out of a hose"
Fat Butt and Pancake Head (s7e5)
Cartman's hand is out of control, pretending to be Jennifer Lopez i.e. Mitch Connor. When Ben Affleck, who's dating the real J-Lo sees "Jennifer Lopez" (Cartman's hand) he falls in love or whatever and they go on a date, which of course means Cartman is there. Affleck makes out with his hand, etc. and when Cartman wakes up the next morning Ben Affleck is naked in his bed.
Awesom-O (s8e5)
When Eric is disguised as a robot to get information from Butters his joke goes too far and they end up staying in Hollywood with Butters' aunt and uncle. While there, some movie execs see Awesom-O (Cartman) and think he'd be good at making movie ideas. But when they're at the studio and one of the execs gets Awesom-O alone in the room with him he asks if he's a "pleasure model" and unzips his pants, Eric runs out of the room in the next scene screaming "LAAAAAME! NOT COOL!!"
Some other small things:
• in s14e9 (It's a Jersey Thing) when Snooki gets to Eric
• s7e1 (Cancelled) when the aliens ask the boys to not tell anyone about what they did last night (drugs and sex w each other) Eric says he won't tell without hesitation. Stan looks horrified.
• S6e4 (Fun with Veal) when they go to wake up Eric he's dreaming and he says "no uncle, Jessie, no"
• In- I'm pretty sure -season one, when Eric mentioned his mother dressed him up in a mailman costume and made him dance while she had sex and did coke with some guy
• The fact that he tells the boys they're not supposed to call it a "penis" but it's supposed to be called a "fireman" and he literally and I quote says: "yes the fireman is very magical. If you rub his helmet he spits in your eye."
It's really fucking awful, and these aren't even all of the examples. A lot of fucked up shit has happened to that kid, there's a reason I say his trauma isn't made up lol
if you could, please reblog and share. kylie lost her virginity to a guy who has hiv and herpes. this is literally sexual assault.
Help needed for a black disabled bisexual woman
Hi I’m remaking this post because the other has lost traction.
Hi. My name is Amber and I am a Black, disabled bisexual woman. My boyfriend sexually assaulted me and I am currently living in a motel to escape the abuse. It’s costing me $350 a week to stay here. I know it’s not a permanent solution but a lot of landlords are not showing places because of the pandemic. I can’t go to a shelter because I’m immunocompromised and it could kill me. Anything helps at this point. Thank you so much for listening.
