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[Hard Contact] chapter 1: I'm still not over this
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“I’m sorry,” she said. Sliding her hand carefully inside her cloak, she felt for the familiar cylinder. She hadn’t wanted the Weequay to know that she was a Jedi, but if this farmer was considering turning her in for a few loaves or a bottle of urrqal, she’d need her lightsaber handy. “It was your barq or my life, I’m afraid.”
(...)
“What were they after you for?” the farmer asked, ignoring her offer.
Yes, I am still at this scene.
If you just read this scene in a feminis lenses, the farmer's reaction is just purely devastating.
The weequay was an attempted-rapist and even if it was just some kind of toxic alpha male shit he pulled off, he surely would have killed Etain. Etain was there, she ALMOST experienced it. Of course she downplayed with a complete stranger who in response went: You are too ugly to be raped.
And honestly all I can think about is how people usually blame girls for their assault, if they are dressing revealing. If they are pretty or enacting desire in other people with their look. If they put on make up a certain way, the skirt length is too short, the color is not proper. Basically it gives you the message that you can be only safe from the rapists if you dress like a wallflower. WHICH IS BULLSHIT.
And then there is the other extreme. If you are gender nonconforming, if your clothes are not pretty or not revealing, if your face is not up for the generally accepted beauty standards, people get in uncomfortable silence and think: but... your are... not even that pretty. Why would they attack you?
Honestly... it's just humiliating. You are the victim, or you almost got assaulted, and not enough that you were hurt, or in shock, you are the one who is humiliated afterwards.
“I’m sorry,” she said. Sliding her hand carefully inside her cloak, she felt for the familiar cylinder. She hadn’t wanted the Weequay to know that she was a Jedi, but if this farmer was considering turning her in for a few loaves or a bottle of urrqal, she’d need her lightsaber handy. “It was your barq or my life, I’m afraid.”
(...)
“What were they after you for?” the farmer asked, ignoring her offer.
“The usual,” she said.
“Oh-ah, you’re not that good looking.”
“Charming.”
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Yes, I am still at this scene.
If you just read this scene in a feminis lenses, the farmer's reaction is just purely devastating.
The weequay was an attempted-rapist and even if it was just some kind of toxic alpha male shit he pulled off, he surely would have killed Etain. Etain was there, she ALMOST experienced it. Of course she downplayed with a complete stranger who in response went: You are too ugly to be raped.
And honestly all I can think about is how people usually blame girls for their assault, if they are dressing revealing. If they are pretty or enacting desire in other people with their look. If they put on make up a certain way, the skirt length is too short, the color is not proper. Basically it gives you the message that you can be only safe from the rapists if you dress like a wallflower. WHICH IS BULLSHIT.
And then there is the other extreme. If you are gender nonconforming, if your clothes are not pretty or not revealing, if your face is not up for the generally accepted beauty standards, people get in uncomfortable silence and think: but... your are... not even that pretty. Why would they attack you?
Honestly... it's just humiliating. You are the victim, or you almost got assaulted, and not enough that you were hurt, or in shock, you are the one who is humiliated afterwards.
It can. Happen. EVERYWHERE AND TO ANYONE.
Is this scene awful? YES.
Do I want to change it? NO. Abso-fucking-lutely NOT.
This is the rawness I love RepComm for.