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

* In an episode of ''[[You Rang, M'Lord?|You Rang M Lord]]'' Teddy hits on a plan to get out of marrying a woman he doesn't love: when she's spending the night at his house he'll creep into her bedroom and then do nothing. She'll assume he's impotent and call the wedding off. He doesn't count on how enthusiastically she'll react to finding him getting into bed with her, and although the character is quite unhappy about what's happened, it's played for laughs.

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' novel ''Last Human'', Lister is forced to marry a hideously ugly Gelf (Genetically Engineered Life Form). The situation is played mostly for laughs, but his emotions during the sex are touched on in a curiously realistic way:

* 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.

* 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.

* In ''[[Peep Show]]'' Mark, the perpetual [[Butt Monkey]], is raped by a woman. However, this is a subversion as when he tells his friends, an addict and a Casanova, they attempt to convince him that he was raped and didn't merely have an awkward moment. He uncomfortably maintains that it wasn't a rape because nothing went into his anus. Like everything else on the show, however, they simultaneously [[Cringe Comedy|play it for laughs]].

'''Mark:''' You know I do, don't load the question. }}

* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Grayza seems to be a believer in this trope: when about to rape Crichton, she boasts that her interrogations are ''so'' much better than those of Scorpius. Crichton doesn't agree in the slightest, and takes the time to remind her during Grayza's [[Villainous Breakdown]].

* In the 2nd episode of ''Shameless'', Sheila handcuffs a naked Frank to the bed without even asking if he's comfortable with it. Frank is shown as being extremely uncomfortable throughout the whole scene and asks that "stop" be their safeword. When he sees her pull out a GIANT dildo, he sees "stop" immediately but it's implied that she anally penetrates him with the dildo anyways as he screams out "stop" again. This is played for laughs and Frank gets over it pretty quickly. Imagine if the genders were reversed

* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode mocking the the [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] written film ''[[The Violent Years]]'' the rape scene is treated as being okay by Crow, while the original film does not.

* It remains to be seen whether ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' will fall into this trope--so far the lack of attention has been justified by the other characters simply not knowing about the situation. It seems male-on-female rape is generally acknowledged by other characters in a work, though, so a milder version of this trope may well be at play. Of course, no male-on-female rapes have occurred in-universe as a basis for comparison, and such a plotline would [[Unfortunate Implications|probably be considered "dark" for the show.]]

** Given that the episode in question was rated TV-PG, whereas other episodes have been rated TV-14 simply for having a bit of action violence, it seems the network falls prey to the trope.

* [[Aristophanes]]'s ''The Assemblywomen'' (or ''Ecclesiazusae'') has a couple old hags dragging a young man away from his young and presumably beautiful lover to force him to obey the new laws governing sex. [[Fridge Logic|One wonders whether they'd already grabbed an ugly man]].

* Shakespere's Midsummer Night's Dream comes very close to playing this straight. The man, Bottom is is the victim of a supernatural practical joke, and has the head of a donkey. Titania, the fairy queen, is the victim of another practical joke, dosed with a love potion, and forced to fall desperately in love with the next thing she sees. That would be the aforementioned Bottom. As soon as love-mad Titania casts eyes on Bottom, she wants him. Bottom, (who's having a rough day) decides to head home, not realizing that she's a fairy queen, and fairy queens aren't used to hearing the word "No".

The summer still doth tend upon my state. }}

** The trope is dodged at the last minute when Bottom decides that being held captive by a pretty, sexually ravenous goddess isn't such a bad deal, and offers no further protest. To be sure, Titania isn't herself, but the scene of her capturing Bottom is never played as anything but hilarity, not say, kidnapping and sex slavery. Also in the play, there's the fact that Demitrius threatens to rape [[Stalker with a Crush|Helena]] if she doesn't stop following him around and this is pretty much glossed over, with the two ultimately being [[Happily Married]] at the end, so the [[Double Standard]] doesn't sting as much.

* Subverted in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''. There are rumors about Morrigan's mother Flemeth and that she kidnaps men to have her way with them. It's only mentioned in passing at first and not enough detail is given to determine whether or not it was definitely rape, but later on it's hinted that it was a rather horrible experience and that she kills them afterwards.

* ''[[Star Control]] II'' has a part where a Syreen captain (a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]], essentially) turns off the lights and proposes to have some 'fun' with you. Even if you outright refuse, she'll still have her 'fun' whether you want it or not.

* Played straight by [[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]] and its fans: Otacon is screwed up and self-loathing enough to view being sexually assaulted as a minor by his step-mother (a woman in a position of authority over him) as 'being seduced' or 'a relationship', the fans have no such excuse.

* Horribly, '''horribly''' [[Averted]] in the ending of [[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin]].

* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' reveals that [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-07-22 this] happened on his first date with Rachel Hart. Not only does he not get any sympathy, but his friendship with her doesn't seem in any way tarnished.

* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' plays it straight with the "Kenta's Horny Mom" strips, where the mother lusts after her son... but is then [[Lampshaded]] with a [[Gender Swap]], to point out just how wrong it really is... and appropriately titled "Gender Incrimination".

* ''[[Ménage à 3]]'':

** Gary is tricked into giving oral sex to his favorite porn star when [[Bed Trick|she makes him think she's his male roommate in drag]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). When the deception is revealed nobody cares that this is a sex crime, not even Gary (though the porn star feels ''somewhat'' guilty).

** Earlier, we see Gary nervously unable to say no to having sex with two women. Despite being very, ''very'' clearly [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/hugging_techniques uncomfortable with the whole situation], the two women essentially force him into a threesome without ever asking for his consent. Moments later, he's [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/while_i_watch nearly catatonic and despairing at the very notion], [http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/thatis_what_i_said and says he didn't have a choice in the matter]. He seems to accept it eventually, and is later seen "preparing" for it (with all the enthusiasm of a man on death row), but little, if any, time is spent on considering his consent--it's just assumed, despite his attempted protests, that he'll be into it.

 

* Surprisingly subverted in ''[[Family Guy]]'', in which Lois rapes Peter. It's played out for comedic effect and other characters think Peter is totally pathetic for it, but he is notably disturbed by the whole thing.

** Then used in a later episode, where Lois more explicitly rapes Peter after he takes up abstinence, and is portrayed as being completely right in doing so. Earlier in the episode, [[Writer on Board|they made fun of Christian groups who advocate abstinence]], and Lois even goes "Abstinence is ''wrong''! Just...wrong!" <ref> Meg had gotten around the abstinence rule by having ear sex, in a parody of how some Christian youths consider anal and oral sex still "technically" maintaining their virginity.</ref> Part of the satirization was the fallacious reasoning the group gave, including the one that convinced Peter, but it still uses this trope in a way that's rather tasteless

** In another aversion of this trope, Meg tries to rape a guy and at the end of an episode, she was being dragged off while her family completely ignored her. What throws this into the [[Black Comedy Rape]] section is that Meg was trying to force herself onto a guy that had held her hostage and had threatened to kill her, to which her family ignored. [[Refuge in Audacity|She was being charged by the guy who had held her hostage]].

** And yet again in "Peter-assment", where Peter is being sexually harassed by his female boss and Lois utterly refuses to give him any sympathy, insisting that a man ''can't'' be sexually harassed because they like sexual behavior. He also catches flak from his friends (Quagmire saying that he can't not sleep with his boss or else he's gay) and the patrons at the local bar. Later on the boss admits that she's harassing Peter because she hasn't had sex in a long time, and the audience is expected to see this as acceptable and the boss as sympathetic. It also did not help that Peter's boss threatened to kill herself because she fears being alone any longer and feels having sex will make her life have some meaning again.

* 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:''' You just figures it out? All the hots ones is crazy!<br />

'''Nathan:''' Yeah, I guess you're right.<br />