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

* A similar scenario occurs in the TV series Episode "Polymorph II", though in this case Lister manages to escape before his "wife" can get his clothes off.

* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books there are several mentions of love potions. All of them have a girl slipping a boy the potion, and in most cases it's played for laughs. Note that love potions make the drinker temporarily obsessed with whoever gave them the potion, so they can be compared to date rape drugs. Fred and George's shop have an entire display of them with a special owl order service that disguises them as cough potions to get them past the Aurors screening all the mail coming into Hogwarts.

** And then deconstructed when Dumbledore says {{spoiler|Merope Gaunt's use of love potions to elope with Tom Riddle was no different than using the Imperius Curse (an illegal mind-control spell) since Merope kept Tom Riddle drugged for ''months'', forcing him to leave his family and live with her against his will, which is a bit worse than snogging someone who wouldn't have snogged you under normal circumstances}}. It's possible the [[Double Standard]] is supposed to be in-universe, and the Merope thing is to highlight what the reader thought was harmless. And {{spoiler|Voldemort}} actually ''admires'' his mother for {{spoiler|drugging and raping his father and detesting him for naturally getting the fuck out when the potion she used wore off}}. This is mentioned by Dumbledore as another sign of his utter insanity.

* 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.}}