Teen wolf: shitty consent
Feb. 23rd, 2014 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickTeen Wolf s2x03: Derek, mackin’ your bad self (you’re sexy and you know it) on a recently-seizure’d-girl in the hospital so that she’ll let you bite her is a wonderful example of shitty, coercive consent. (Yes, yes, it’s just a bite. It’s not really about sex. This is werewolves, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from vampires, where the whole biting thing maps directly onto sex. This is not like that. Not at all. And I suppose you have a bridge I’d like to buy, too?)
Your moves were actually a fantastic example of shitty, coercive consent as might could happen when there’s a craptacular balance of power between the parties. You were way hotter. (Don’t judge me. It’s a kind of power.) You were older, with the societal power of being-the-dude, the experience (all kinds. Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?), the physical power of being a werewolf, the physical good health to be making good choices... jesus fuck you had the CLOTHES, even– she was in a hospital gown. And the height advantage, where you stood and leaned in and she was more-or-less seated/recumbent. You fucking abducted her while she was out of it and gurneyed her to the morgue while she was disoriented. (No, that’s not rape-y at all.) And you leveraged all of that shit against the girl. Way to model abuses of power and shittastic consent, Derek.
You were SHIN FONDLING! Before there was consent, you were shin fondling and folks don’t wear a whole lot under those damn gowns. And then you grabbed her ankles and drug her towards you so that you were in between her legs and her little hospital gown rode up higher. Mmm-hmm. Derek, I am disappoint because that is not the way to get good consent.
Yes, yes, predator. I get it. I really, really do. I get absolutely every single thing you do, every signifier, every layer of effective cross-referencing for male power, sexual power, werewolfing, all of it. I probably get more out of this foolishness than your intended audience does (they’re likely a third my age, I’d say, with far less experience reading this crap) and with a fuller appreciation of the thing’s delights on all the fronts. And, yes, it’s hot. *sigh* But yo. Someone should point out your bad consent. So I am.
Your moves were actually a fantastic example of shitty, coercive consent as might could happen when there’s a craptacular balance of power between the parties. You were way hotter. (Don’t judge me. It’s a kind of power.) You were older, with the societal power of being-the-dude, the experience (all kinds. Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?), the physical power of being a werewolf, the physical good health to be making good choices... jesus fuck you had the CLOTHES, even– she was in a hospital gown. And the height advantage, where you stood and leaned in and she was more-or-less seated/recumbent. You fucking abducted her while she was out of it and gurneyed her to the morgue while she was disoriented. (No, that’s not rape-y at all.) And you leveraged all of that shit against the girl. Way to model abuses of power and shittastic consent, Derek.
You were SHIN FONDLING! Before there was consent, you were shin fondling and folks don’t wear a whole lot under those damn gowns. And then you grabbed her ankles and drug her towards you so that you were in between her legs and her little hospital gown rode up higher. Mmm-hmm. Derek, I am disappoint because that is not the way to get good consent.
Yes, yes, predator. I get it. I really, really do. I get absolutely every single thing you do, every signifier, every layer of effective cross-referencing for male power, sexual power, werewolfing, all of it. I probably get more out of this foolishness than your intended audience does (they’re likely a third my age, I’d say, with far less experience reading this crap) and with a fuller appreciation of the thing’s delights on all the fronts. And, yes, it’s hot. *sigh* But yo. Someone should point out your bad consent. So I am.
