Souichi's later relationship with his kohai Morinaga in the Spin-Off series The Tyrant Falls in Love, most of the comedy resulting from Morinaga and Souichi not fitting the traditional BL "cold-hearted seme/cheerful uke" dynamic at all.The rape itself is treated as wrong, but its consequences are merely treated as funny. Souichi's resulting homophobia is played up to ludicrous extremes clearly intended for laughs. In Challengers it is revealed in a side story that Tomoe's older brother, Souichi, had a Near-Rape Experience at the hands of one of his teachers, which caused him to become anti-gay.The Yaoi Genre anime Sukisho! plays an Attempted Rape in the first episode for comedy also, the one on bottom is said to have enjoyed it.Prison Rape often overlaps with this trope. Related to Black Comedy Rape and Queer People Are Funny. See also All Women Are Doms, All Men Are Subs. Legally (to this day in many places) rape was defined as a man sexually assaulting a woman, excluding this by definition.Ĭompare with Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male and Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female. This unfortunately extends to sexual harassment too. Male rape victims have few resources available to help them, and they often avoid speaking out about what happened to them and seeking the few resources that do exist because they're afraid of being laughed at and seen as pathetic and weak. If he was a "real man," he wouldn't have been raped in the first place! Therefore it's okay to mock and belittle victims even if they acknowledge the rape. People prefer to think of it as impossible for a man to be raped. The Unfortunate Implications have Real Life consequences.
The writers obviously expect audiences to feel elated at the prospect of the bad man being raped again and again for years to come. At the end, when the criminal is arrested, the cops will make a point to tell him that he will spend the next xx years of his life as a buttboy for the burly rapists who fill the prison.
In police TV shows, cops will routinely threaten suspects with jail, and the "big horny men" inside. Thus a man who is raped is by definition weak and unmanly therefore he's comically pathetic and must have deserved it.Ĭonversely, audiences may go as far as to actively wish for a character to be a victim of male-on-male rape if they're the villain. Plus, remember that All Men Are Perverts and always want sex, so if the victim is homosexual then there's the perception he can't be raped in the first place because gay men are too horny to say no. Thus, the victim of male-on-male rape has been humiliated and defeated in the worst way possible as well as robbed of his masculinity, while the perpetrator will strangely be considered exceptionally virile for having been able to sexually dominate a man.
With this postulate in place, men aren't supposed to be victims, especially not of anything sex-related, since a "real man" is always the one putting their penis into other people. Firstly, men being on average physically stronger than women, they are expected to be strong and dominant-including during intercourse-and rape is thought of as something that only happens to women and only done by men. There are multiple Double Standards at work here.