PizzaCake | Bluesky
TW: Sexual Assault
Transcript
7 Panel Comic
Panel 1: White text on blood red background “TW: Sexual Assault”
Panel 2: A guy holds down a semi-conscious naked girl. Her eyes are closed and tear stained. Her mouth in an expression of pain. Around her are more reaching hands.
Jane Doe: This hurts….there’s too many people here…
I can’t breathe…
Panel 3: Beside the girl lays an empty liquor bottle and an empty pill bottle. Hands press down on her head and chest.
Jane Doe: I’ve got the spins
What’s happening
Who’s touching me?
I don’t want to do this anymore
Panel 4: A group of naked men laugh as they enjoy themselves
Jane Doe: I’m scared…
… if I say stop…
…will they get mad?
I can’t talk anyway…
Panel 5: Blood runs between her thighs. Her legs are bruised.
Jane Doe: Ow! Stop grabbing me!
I think I’m bleeding…
…I want to go home…
Just….gonna….shut….down….
Panel 6: The girl wraps her arms around her legs and closes her eyes as she listens to the barrage of insults, vitriol and victim blaming after coming out with what was done to her.
You can’t cry ‘rape’ whenever you regret sleeping with someone!!
Bitch
Maybe don’t hang out with guys!
Your fault for getting drunk!
Whore
You said yes at first! You can’t take it back!
Why didn’t you push them off?!
Slut
She just wants money!
Stop trying to ruin their lives!!
Attention seeker
Panel 7: “Why are they mad at me?”
I truly believe the world right now is going through an empathy crisis what with the rise of the far right. Humans evolved empathy to better survive and take care of each other. Our neoliberal capitalist world rewards narcissism, individuality, and exploitation. The literal opposite of empathy. It's being un-learned, people are literally devolving because of profit and systemic abuse and violence perpetuated by those at the top.
And you are perpetuating that. Downplaying the lived fucking reality of countless women is utterly disgusting. Real life is dramatic. Because it's real. It's horrible. It's painful. It's terrifying. But that is what this woman absolutely went through. And so many others have as well. And it stays with them their entire lives, constantly following them, the trauma coming back when the body and mind attempt to protect them from experiencing that trauma again.
The state of education is so piss poor, and it's on purpose such that we remain divided so that those on top can continue to escape accountability. Everyone should be educated dramatically about what went on here. Because this is not uncommon. There should be better education of what rape is and it shouldn't be censored or hidden away, it should be given the weight it's deserved. And drug use should be educated as well. The effects, ensuring it's done safely, that there's no such thing as consent when mind-altering substances are involved.
I'm glad this case is getting people to talk. Because it's really exposing how so many people lack empathy and can't see themselves in the position of others. It's getting people to talk about what consent and rape really is. But man is it tough to see so many people downplay the situation and even blame the victim for what happened, or even outright deny that anything happened at all.
And to tie this little essay in a bow, it tends to be those who lack empathy. Which empathy correlates with higher intelligence which correlates with not being a conservative, fascist freak. It's all connected in the end. And we're living through an empathy crisis brought on by neoliberal capitalism and its focus on individuality that places the fault of all bad outcomes on the individual. That is the fight we find ourselves in today.
Be radically empathetic.
Getting raped.
Are you asking what the point of art is? Does every artistic portrayal need to reference a real event or be limited to portraying a singular event? Did it evoke feelings in you? The point is clearly to outrage and induce feelings in viewers against heinous sexual assault which is perpetrated against women all the time. If people are unaware or unemotional about social issues nothing will change.
The point is it makes you uncomfortable. It forces us to reconcile with reality. This shit happens. Real people are harmed. While this is in relation to a specific case which many have already mentioned in the comments, the point is that this is normal. It's not one individual woman who has experienced this. Thousands go through this all the time and we normalize looking away or vicitim blaming. That's the point.
It's not made up. It's not random. It's real fucking people asswipe. It's lives ruined and perpetrators escaping accountability. Especially if they have wealthy or connected parents. Lazy or "inconvenienced" police and district attorneys. Real people, real crimes and you're still actively downplaying it saying it's random, it doesn't matter, isn't it too dramatic? Does it make you uncomfortable?
That's the fucking point.