Double Standard Rape (Female on Male): Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Onihime VS]]'', the closest thing to an actual love interest the main character has is the bully who sexually assaults him on a daily basis, culminating in attempting straight-up rape after cornering him in the athletic supply closet. We're supposed to be rooting for her to end up with him, though to be fair, the other girls competing to win his heart are literally competing for his heart, the blood pumping organ in his chest, so that they can eat it.

* This trope occurs in the [[Manga]] ''[[Hen]]'' where the female main character, Chizuru rapes a guy when he's unconscious. Since she's the main character, the tone of the story indicates that we're still supposed to root for her. Chizuru has attempted rapes against her in the plot, although those rapists aren't portrayed sympathetically at all.

** Crosses the line when Reika, the girl whom the main character is oblivious about, snaps, causing her alternate, more assertive and less moral personality to take command, who promptly lures Shungo to a secluded spot, wherein she ties him down and attempts to rape him for real.

* Done in the anime ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', where the hero Saiga is run over by [[Dirty Cop|Inspector]] [[Action Girl|Ginza]]. This leaves Saiga unconscious, allowing Ginza to take him to her apartment and invoke this trope.

* Another DC example: Bruce Wayne, upon finding out from Talia al Ghul that they have a son, notes to her that she drugged him during a ceremony wherein Ra's himself united Batman with Talia, during a short period where Bats and the Demon's Head had to work together. Bruce was fairly lucid when he slept with her (in ''Batman: Son of the Demon'') and doesn't use the word "rape" or even "assault", but it's clear he didn't find it amusing after the fact but still takes the son (Damian Wayne) who is now the fifth Robin. Of course, this example is derived from the work of one writer (Mike W. Barr) being added upon by another (Grant Morrison), with a 19 year gap.

* DC also had a case of reverse [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]] between two of the founding members of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]. Saturn Girl tried to use her telepathic powers to bring Cosmic Boy out of a coma. It appeared that she'd succeeded, but instead she was subconsciously animating and controlling his comatose body; during this period they began dating, and Cos woke up at their wedding. This admittedly was not treated as "okay" so much as it was forgiven because Saturn Girl did it ''subconsciously'', not on purpose.

* Played with in ''[[Fables]]'' when Snow White and Bigby are both enchanted and wake up in a tent in the woods, discovering later that they slept together. While it's uncertain if it's rape (as both of them were under a spell and couldn't remember the action), Bigby is rather offended that Snow blames him and points out that for all they know, ''she'' seduced him. Though really, Snow was more angry that Bigby knew they slept together because of his wolf senses but chose to lie about it, with her only finding out after she discovered she was pregnant.

* Foggy Nelson, the law partner and friend of Matt Murdock, AKA [[Daredevil]], was drugged and raped by a client of theirs named Lydia Mckenzie, who was secretly working for Mysterio. She then committed suicide by jumping out the window and made it appear that Nelson had pushed her. As a result, Foggy's girlfriend, Liz Allen (the original love interest of [[Spider-Man]] and widow of Green Goblin Harry Osborn), leaves him for cheating on her. He was also fired from his job because of the negative publicity it might bring the firm by his new law partner who is also his, until recently, [[Missing Mom]].

* ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' has a Decepticon disguised as a human female track down Sam in college, force him to the bed, and into a very compromising position. When Sam's girlfriend finds them, she is furious at him, and the situation is played for laughs.

* ''[[Almost Famous]]'' has a scene where a flock of 18-to-20-year-old girls have sex with a 15-year-old boy, shouting "deflower the kid!" Consider how that would be treated if the genders were reversed.

* A lesser sexual offense than rape, but same [[Double Standard]]: In ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'', another nurse remarks to the [[Love Interest]] that she'd "had a look" at the unconscious David's genitals. If a male nurse had admitted to peeking under female patients' gowns, he'd get canned on the spot, but in this case the voyeur is merely chided that it's improper behavior.

* ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'' doesn't so much play this straight as avert it while [[Crosses the Line Twice|playing it for laughs anyways]]. Dentist Julia ([[Jennifer Aniston]]) drugs Dale her assistant and molests him while he's unconscious. She later shows him photos she took of this that look like them having sex and threatens to show them to his fiance if he does not have sex with her. Dale is very upset and angry by this and calls it rape and Julia is portrayed as a horrible person though it is still played for comedy more than rape usually is when the victims female.

* Played straight in Ken Follett's "World Without End". Merthin is raped by Griselda, the daughter of the man of whom he is an apprentice. It turns out {{spoiler|it was all a plot by Elfric so he would not have to give Merthin a free set of tools and a full guild membership, however.}}

* The ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' does this with Dathomir. Luke even moralizes about everything wrong with this trope. Then later Luke and Ben go back to Dathomir, and Ben asks "What kind of woman could I find here anyway?"

* In ''Fallen Angels'' (by Niven/Pournelle/Flynn), Captain Lee Arteria (female) announces that she will be taking Bob Needleton's seed with her when she leaves. They've only just met, and when he hesitates, she explicitly says: "I didn't ask." There are several other people watching, and only one person asks "Shouldn't we be trying to rescue him?" However, he doesn't bear a grudge.

* In ''A Working of Stars'' by Debra Doyle and D. James Macdonald, a {{spoiler|spy, Iulan Vai}} takes advantage of a convalescing Arekhon's semi-consciousness to have sex with him even though his semi-conscious state means he cannot truly consent. Arekhon believes she is his lover, Elaeli. Even more creepy—this act becomes the start of a relationship.

** Another had a woman slipping talented men roofies so she could get their genetic material. They all take this one seriously though.

* And then there was the time [[True Blood|Jason Stackhouse]] {{spoiler|was gang-raped by the female population of an entire town.}} [[Word of God]] implies that this was his "comeuppance" for his life as a lady's man.

** Played for laughs, at least to some degree, in the episode "First Contact". Disguised as an alien, Commander Riker is trying to escape when a female alien confronts him. She agrees to help him, but only if he has sex with her first. It is hard to imagine Troi agreeing to have sex with a male alien to escape. Which is made even worse when you consider that he was seriously injured at the time.

** Makes another appearance in the episode "Liaisons". Picard is marooned on an alien world with a woman intent on making him love her. After trying to let her down easy, she becomes more aggressive and forces him onto the ground. Sex does not actually occur as Picard is able to wrestle free, but nonetheless, he emerges visibly upset. Picard cracks a joke about how what just went down could be considered a crime, but otherwise seems none the worse for wear.

* In ''[[Picket Fences]]'', a man is raped by a woman "Sharon Stone" style, but she thought he was "saying no when he really means yes." During the trial, the [[Amoral Attorney]] makes a big joke out of the male victim's experience.

* In the 70's [[Made for TV Movie|TV-movie]] ''It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy'', a stripper orders a family man to strip at gunpoint "for kicks"; needless to say, the film is a comedy, but centers on the fact of how no one sympathizes with him.

* [http://www.avclub.com/articles/too-close-for-comfort-for-every-man-theres-two-wom,70558/ One infamous episode] of ''Too Close For Comfort'' has Monroe kidnapped and raped by two women. Oddly enough, only Mr. Rush sees Monroe as the victim of a crime while his wife and two daughters think [[Unfortunate Implications|Monroe somehow "cooperated" with his rapists]].

* Pretty much the entire premise of [[Lost Girl]]. The main character, a succubus, routinely uses her magical roofies to get what she wants (usually from men). It's stated outright that this is what she brings to her and Kenzi's PI business. She also spent years draining the life out of everyone she had sex with. In the penultimate episode of Season 1, Dyson, a wolf shifter, is attacked by the succubus Aife and forced to have sex with her just as the main character, his girlfriend Bo, also a succubus, walks in on them. He was not coerced with "magical succubus roofie" but simply overpowered by her and is definitely depicted as him struggling and unwilling. It is later referred to as a seduction by Bo and no one ever talks about the fact he was unwilling. Nor do they seem sympathetic to him when he returns after a 3 week abscense, seemingly completely mystified why he would have taken off for so long. However, his character behaves like a man that has been violated, by putting himself in a similar situation of vulnerablity with the Norn, then later goes on a spree of getting into bar brawls up and down the East coast, and cuts himself off from Bo. (It's written however that all of his behavior is due to what the Norn did and not anything to do with his rape at the hands of Aife.)

* In an episode of ''[[Harry's Law]]'' one of Tommy's clients claimed he was raped by a woman. One of the other lawyers believed since he organized it wasn't rape, and Tommy even suggested to drop the case. The man keeps Tommy going by asking if he would be saying the same thing if he was a woman rapped by a man.

* In, of all things, a commercial for chocolate candies: tennis player Roger Federer is stopped in the airport by two attractive female transportation-security officials, who confiscate his candy and threaten him with a strip search. It's played for comedy, although one can't imagine a version starring (say) Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams and two ''male'' security people.

== Music ==

* INXS' video for "Taste It." It's either this or some particularly bizarre BDSM. It does not help when Hutchance is screaming "Never! Never! Never!" as his clothes are being cut off.

* In [[Britney Spears]]'s "Womanizer", the singer seduces her husband using several disguises, possibly to test his fidelity. Nothing too bad at first. But her advances gain force as the video progresses, till she's violently taking him against his will. At the end of the video, she beats him into submission, and all three of her personas rape him.

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has one quest--''A Nice Day for a Right Wedding''—where you help a young woman drug the man she has a crush on with an aphrodisiac so she can effectively force him into wanting her. [[Moral Dissonance|And it is treated as a good thing, netting you a boost to your karma!]] The only [[NPC]] who even knows about the drug is the one who wanted to marry the victim. The victim actually blames himself, since as far as he knows he lost control of himself and ''raped her''. He marries her thinking it's the only right thing he can do at this point, but is obviously traumatised by the whole thing. The cherry on the whole [[Moral Dissonance]] sundae is that the victim is an acolyte who has chosen a life of celibacy and service and made it abundantly clear that is what he wants from his life!

** In the quest ''The Nuka-Cola Challenge'', a hopelessly naive woman asks the player to gather a rare (presumably addictive) flavor of cola for her, which would generate good karma upon completion. Then her only neighbor asks the player to sell the bottles to him instead, so he can use them in an attempt to seduce her, but doing so gives the player ''bad'' karma. It's true that the guy is a little sleazy, but he has so far taken "no" for an answer and his most aggressive plan is to give her a gift she already wants and then hope she changes her mind. So, the takeaway is that enabling an addiction for money is a good thing, but enabling an addiction for sex is a bad thing. In a [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-Zag]], giving him some seductive pyjamas from a side quest to assist him in pairing up with the girl is considered a good thing, despite that she doesn't understand the sexual [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]]. Perhaps he should ask "[[Do You Want to Copulate?]]" instead.

* In the [[Capcom vs. Whatever]] series of games, Morrigan has a new super move named [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS03a3p4Ej8 Eternal Slumber]. Succubus nature aside, she's the protagonist of ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' and frequently portrayed as a hero.

* This is [[Everything Trying to Kill You|one of the many, many possible ways to die]] in ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 2: Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places)'', where Larry wins a pleasure cruise for two, but has to share a cabin with an elderly woman who will instantly rape Larry the first chance she gets.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode, "The Strong Arms of the Ma". After bulking up, Marge rapes Homer (who is clearly scared and doesn't want to) violently enough that it hurts to walk the next morning. It's played for laughs, with Marge never apologizing or repenting, and getting away with it.

* Parodied in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' when a group of female villains want to harvest lead-singer Nathan Explosion's "seed" in order to father a race of super-babies and kill him afterword. He is saved by Toki, but later laments in a way that invokes this trope

'''Toki:''' And the ugly ones, too. }}

* On ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' the series's 5th episode a [[Big Beautiful Woman|heavyset]] [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green female alien]] falls for Agent J and pins him to the ground to mate with him against his protests. K just chuckles and walks off, saying "Have a good time, kid."

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