Trigger Warning: Breakfast

chocoboat · 2014-07-11T04:31:22+00:00

It's a sad story of a woman who was raped by her boyfriend and tried to pretend it didn't happen, instead of fighting back harder or pressing charges. The fact that she made breakfast for him the next morning as part of her usual routine made her think of rape every time she saw eggs for the next few years.

It doesn't really have anything to do with men's rights, though.

The__Imp · 2014-07-11T17:35:49+00:00

:( Made me really sad to read. I think it is very well written.

MRSPArchiver · 2014-07-11T03:05:53+00:00

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TheChymera · 2014-07-11T05:35:32+00:00

I think it's a really great composition!

Sure, RAPERAPERAPE is a well-abused verbal tic of feminists, but this doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and it doesn't mean it can't make for a sad and heart-touching story.

One issue I can see though is that feminists inflate the scope of rape and thus encourage more and more people to feel hurt or stigmatized by it. Maybe if she hadn't heard the misguided opinion of feminists: that the sort of experience she had is best classified the same as people assaulting, immobilizing, raping, and leaving their victims for dead, she would have been less scarred by it or might even have forgotten about it after the first time they had sex on better terms again.

I think the tone of her story and the fact that she describes her boyfriend first and foremost as "my rapist" exemplifies quite well that a lot of the pain comes from the word "rape" itself.

slideforlife · 2014-07-11T06:25:44+00:00

dear artist,

re: "trigger warning breakfast"

it's all about tone.

there's a tone, a particularly and intentionally flat tone that would make it seem like a "no" was being said sarcastically. It kind of appears like you've got that tone down pretty well in this comic.

Good luck with brunch, sfl

PeteyMax · 2014-07-11T17:52:31+00:00

I'm rather disappointed that most of my comments are getting downvoted. It makes me question the motivations of the readers here. Perhaps you have internalized feminism to a greater degree than you realized. In today's society, women are supposed to be equal to men, yet all I see is an endless litany of double standards. When a girl sits down next to me on the bus and starts telling me about her visit to the gynecologist am I supposed to be flattered or is she a creepy weirdo engaged in street harassment? When a woman I work with tells me I'm awkward and creepy, oh, it must be because I am, not that she is engaged in the same kind of harassment women have been fighting against.

As to rape, it is (or should be) quite difficult to stick your dick inside a woman's vagina if your partner is unwilling. If a woman puts up even the slightest amount of physical resistance, it will be immediately clear at that point whether the man is truly trying to rape her or not.

PeteyMax · 2014-07-11T05:38:18+00:00

If all men are rapists it is because they have been forced into that position. Consider how badly they are shamed for being virgins or being sexually inexperienced. Now consider that men are still expected to take the initiative in all things sexual and how the definition of rape has been expanded so that if a woman demonstrates only token resistance, then it must have been rape. It is an impossible double bind and I refuse to accept it any longer.

skysinsane · 2014-07-11T05:27:38+00:00

This annoys me to no end. Girls will not fight back, so the men have sex with the women with no physical resistance, and somehow that it rape? In a rational world, it would only be rape if the women fought back, but in our politically correct world, literally anything can be considered rape.

Title	Trigger Warning: Breakfast
Author	PeteyMax
Upvotes	0
Comments	39
Date	July 11, 2014 3:05 AM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrights/comments/2ae6l0/trigger-warning-breakfast/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/trigger-warning-breakfast.1619158 https://theredarchive.com/post/1619158

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