Public Anger Is Growing At How Thailand’S Tv Shows Glorify Rape

[Coss]

In Thai soap operas, rape is often shown as a vehicle for revenge or a path to true love. Now activists are calling on producers to stop romanticizing the crime and feeding into the country’s culture of gender inequality.

 

To avenge his father’s death, Pathvee hunts down the only daughter of his father’s enemy, harasses her and rapes her. Then she falls in love with him and they live happily ever after. It might sound unlikely, but this is the plot of the popular Thai soap opera “Unending Fire of Passion,†which is far from unusual among Thai soaps in turning sexual violence into romance.

 

In “Sunset at Chao Praya,†the hero, Kobori, forces his new wife to have sex with him. In “Missing Heaven,†the lead character Kavee rapes the heroine Narin for family revenge, and in “The Power of Shadows†a handsome male character drunkenly rapes the female lead. In almost all cases, the women end up ultimately falling in love with their attackers.

 

A study by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation found that 80 percent of Thai soap operas, or lakhon, depicted rape or sexual violence in 2014. Characters who commit sexual violence are also rarely – if ever – held to account.

 

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[scoobydoo]

retards

[Dexi]

I wonder if the viewers actually like these scenes or not ...the scripts seem to be written according to some sort of male fantasy - not that I`m a feminist or anything like that, strange,as I would guess most of the viewers are female.

[Coss]

A non feminist view might go something like this :

 

Women unconsciously view the possibility of conjugals with strangers as desirable in terms of genetic variability. "Being Taken" by a handsome stranger, as against a violent rape by a retard, is a common theme in many "Romance" novels.

 

It is the feminists themselves that give us the black and white definitions of rape, and whilst actual rape is despicable and not to be tolerated in any society, I'm sure there are shades of grey ...

 

There I've done it, departed from the herd opinion of rape, crucify me.

[baa99]

... so are the show ratings up?

[Flashermac]

Back in the 1970s, when there was very strict censorship of nudity, no love scenes were permitted. But filmmakers got around that by having very graphic rape scenes. Maybe the same mentality is still at work in TV soap operas?

[pasathai1]

so does society mimmic the soap operas or do the soap operas mimmic thai society ?

[Coss]

so does society mimmic the soap operas or do the soap operas mimmic thai society ?

 

Aren't they the same thing?

[Flashermac]

If soap operas mimic society in the USA, no wonder the country is farked.

[Dexi]

Who better to fix things than a reality TV star