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Frank was sexually aroused by Libby? If a woman who I was not sexually attracted to forced herself unto me, I highly doubt that I would get sexually aroused by her.

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I don't mean to sound angry but are you *beep* kidding me? You must be about 13 to ask this question. I hope you're just stupid not plain ignorant. Men get raped by women a lot more than you think. I'm assuming you're confusing sexual attraction with sexual arousal. For those of you over 16 in the class, you may know that any number of things can make a man aroused, including but not limited to: Cold, heat, time of day, altitude and excercising. If a woman jumps on top of you and is trying to initiate sex, your brain doesn't take into account sexual attraction, it understands that someone wants to mate with you and sends an appropriate response. The opposite of a man becoming erect is a womans vagina lubricating herself in preparation for intercourse. Having worked with victims of rape, male and female, for a number of years, I can tell you that just because a woman became wet or a man became hard certainly doesn't give someone the right to have sex through force.

That answers the last part of your question, in response to the original: 'How can it be rape if he was sexually aroused by her?' Because although he may have been aroused by her, in his mind, he was still married and therefore didn't want to have sex. He cleared said no and she still went ahead. It was rape.

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Not that I'm completely disagreeing with what you said, but if you're logic is correct, then if Whoopi Goldberg or Monique (two female celebrities who I'm not attracted to) had tried to initiate sex with me, then I would become sexually aroused?

I've never worked with victims of rape, etc...but I've had women in the past who have tried to seduce me and failed (I wasn't sexually attracted to them). I guess the human body works differently for each person in regards to human sexuality.

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Actually, yes. Done like this you would. Unless you have erectile dysfunction. She actually handled him for a while before having sex, she pulled his privates out. If a 90 year old obese woman, or even a man, fondled you there, you will get aroused.

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If a 90 year old obese woman, or even a man, fondled you there, you will get aroused.
Hate to break this to you but NO you wouldn't unless there is something seriously wrong with you. The two posts that say guys can get it hard without intent is absolutely full of crap. Men with mental disorders maybe but that says more about the mental state of the two guys that posted those remarks then it does about reality. If a NORMAL man doesn't find the person attractive at least on a subconscious level, NOTHING will happen.

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This is incorrect, science disagrees with you. Absolutely nothing you just said is grounded in reality, and it's honestly common sense. Just think a moment about it. And what you just said is actually quite offensive to those who have been sexually abused. A big part of the trauma, is not only the act itself, but later on since they were aroused they blamed themselves for it or were conflicted to the point of thinking they wanted it, even if they clearly wasn't allowing it to happen at the time. Have you never heard of people getting erections on accident? If it can happen with absolutely no stimulus whatsoever (generally teenager), without sex even crossing ones mind, an unappealing person actually stimulating it obviously can, regardless of the person's appearance. It's like saying flinching when someone acts like they are going to hit you, is voluntary. Most people do flinch, even if they are told it's just to make them flinch. It's a reflex, and natural. Just as if a sex organ is stimulated, it will respond regardless of circumstances. In fact, the opposite is the case. If something didn't happen, it's a sign that something physically is wrong with the individual.


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Amazing. I hope there's a field where you actually know what you're talking about, because what you know about human sexuality wouldn't fill a brochure. In science, we do this weird thing where we actually measure stuff, instead of taking our personal experience and assuming that's a natural law.

OTOH, I'm glad you've had so comfortable a life that you're able to believe such a pleasant fantasy. Millions of men and women who've been raped have learned the hard way the body responds, even when your brain is screaming in pain and revulsion.

PS. I'm not claiming to be one of them, just someone who reads science rather than making crap up.

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Seduction isn't the same as holding someone down and forcibly stimulating them.

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Thank you for this. One of the first thing rape victims of BOTH sexes are taught is to not feel guilty or dirty if their body responds against their will. It happens. Just like women can become wet when raped (the body's natural response is to lubricate to prevent painful friction) and even orgasm, men can become hard. That is not consent. It really, really bothers me that there are people in this world who don't get it.

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Thank you for this. One of the first thing rape victims of BOTH sexes are taught is to not feel guilty or dirty if their body responds against their will. It happens. Just like women can become wet when raped (the body's natural response is to lubricate to prevent painful friction) and even orgasm, men can become hard. That is not consent. It really, really bothers me that there are people in this world who don't get it.


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It was NOT rape. The legal definition of rape requires "FORCE". Physical force, not just mental manipulation. Bolties was all of 5'0" and 100 pounds. Frank was about 6'3" and 225 pounds. He could have sneezed and knocked her across the room. The only way Boltie could have possibly "forced" herself upon Frank is if she had a weapon. Otherwise, no force.... no rape. Don't confuse "statutory rape" where force is not an issue with what happened between Boltie and Frank.

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That definition doesn't appear to be widely accepted, just look at the footballer Ched Evans who was recently sentenced to I think 5 years in jail because the woman he had sex with was drunk and thus 'incapable of giving consent'. All 'rape' seems to be placed under the same banner these days: non-consentual sex.

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She doesn't remember but there seemed to be little suggestion that she was actually unconscious, simply that she was too drunk for any consent she did give to be valid. Its a law I find quite disturbing, one which means tens of thousands of people are technically raping each other every Friday night, and whether one of them are sent to jail or not depends on a highly subjective retrospective assessment. Even if guilty, it seems to fall under the category of taking advantage of someone, which seems a very different crime to that associated with rape (generally conceived as an invasive violent act). Alcohol is a drink for adults because it does put oneself in a vulnerable situation and you have to take responsibility for the acts you are involved in. A drunk person being raped, i.e. being physically forced to engage in a sexual act, is clearly illegal. A drunk person engaging in an act but their consent being deemed invalid is a completely different situation and I worry that the law will fail to distinguish between the two.

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I hope you're just stupid not plain ignorant.
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Ellen Page could rape me...

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All day long

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I would let her rape me. Multiple times.

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Then it's not rape, a$$hat.

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Ellen Page could rape me...


I wouldn't put up much of a fight if I was in his shoes in the film. I get he still loved his wife but he definetely did care for Libby. I'd smash.

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An erection can occur for a lot of reasons and doesn't indicate consent. Neither does orgasming which can happen to both men and women who are raped. Like orgasm, an erection is a physiological response to stimulation and does not indicate consent.

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How many women are convicted of missionary position rape of a man, and how many are doing time for force f_ucking a guy?

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None that I know of, but maybe it's because men are ashamed to come forward because they don't think anyone would ever believe them.

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What I'm asking is has any woman ever been convicted and done time for rape of a man for force f_ucking a man in missionary position? I think we would have heard of it right? So does that mean what Bolty did was not rape?

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I think it would be hard, no pun intended, for a woman to rape a man with him on top of her, but if he were drugged, it's possible.
In this case, Boltie was on top, so it is absolutely rape.

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I don't think so. I'm asking if this case was rape in the legal sense, the prosecutable sense. "Yeah, your honor, I was tired and didn't want to cheat on my wife so I told her no, but she got on top of me and pulled out my dick and started to f_ck me to orgasm for both of us, so i want her in jail, even though I am 6'5" and she is 5'0"..."

Jury: "I don't think so dude, case dismissed."

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http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/woman-convicted-of-rape/
No means no.

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Nobody on imdb ever answers anything seriously, it's as if one word answers and jokes mask their inability to know the answer.

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I don't know. Certainly the overwhelming majority of rapists are men, but that doesn't mean that women don't rape men as well. Rape in general is vastly under reported and rape of men is even more underreported because a lot of men see it as a challenge to their masculinity. It's likely that female rape of men is even MORE drastically underreported because men a) are ashamed a woman did that to them b) think no one will believe them c) think they must have wanted it. People who become physically aroused or who orgasm during rape can suffer a lot of anxiety over that fact, wondering if they wanted to be raped on some level or were inviting it.


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I honestly have to ask if people asking "how can it be rape he was erect" know anything about rape besides what they see in movies.Males getting raped in the *beep* by a *beep* named Jamal can become erect.

Women getting raped can become aroused.

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While I agree that simply having Frank erect and having an Orgasm in itself doesn't give consent and can be rape.

I do not think Frank was raped in this case. Libby was very aggressive and went against Frank's initial wishes about having sex but during the actual sex he was willing to have sex with her. Frank was very ashamed of what was going on but was still going through with the act.

Frank has proven three things in the movie:

1. When he has the Mask on his passive personality is gone and he is more aggressive and violent.

2. When giving Libby a simple High Five he knocked her to the ground and hurt her hand.

3. After the very affectionate hug after they both had their orgasm, he had no problem throwing her off of him so he could go throw up.

This proves that with Libby putting the mask on him that anytime he could of thrown her off of him. He was not scared of her hurting him, she was no threat to him physically, and with the Mask on she would be no threat to him mentally or emotionally. During the act he did try to cover his face because he felt shame for cheating on his wife, but he was not being raped.

Frank was tired but fully aware of what was going on. Frank was not bound or restrained or under any chemical influence to prevent him from simply tossing her off. We see the reaction she has after he tosses her off at the end. I don't see her continuing to try to have sex with him if he threw her off before.

Now take his wife, the big boss guy was trying to have sex with her, and she was able to put up an actual fight against him. She was also very much under the influence of drugs at the time. I am not saying that a woman isn't raped if she didn't try to fight back, but what happened between Frank and Libby is a matter of physics.

Frank proved he is able to physically throw her off with no effort at all. It was simply Frank not wanting to have sex with her until she stimulated him, then he had sex while feeling guilty for cheating on her.

If I reverse the roles, you can put China Doll from wrestling as Frank, and Verne Troyer who played Mini Me as Libby. There is no way that Verne could have sex with China unless she was wanting sex. This is going by the same conditions as with Frank and Libby.







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I phrased my question carefully, if it's not anal rape, if the female is smaller, and she simply aggressively mounts a male friend while he is resting and he says no but becomes erect anyway and she f_cks him to orgasm, as is the case here, it is not rape, it would never hold up in court and any similar case in real life has never put a woman in jail for rape, if it was a similar circumstance, and until someone shows me a case where a girl did this to a guy and was convicted of rape then it's not rape. You can think or feel that it's rape, but you would only be speaking for yourself, not the law or other people with differing opinions.

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Was this meant for me or another poster? We both agree it was not rape. I just have a very long detailed reason why.

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No one in particular, just at all people who say hands down that was rape. I think they are imagining this happening to a female, and they want the same standard to apply to a male. But that's the problem, it doesn't apply to a male, male and females circumstances and physiology are different, as well as social standards and biases. No woman who did what that woman did in the film has ever been convicted of rape. Show me the case or example, you can't.

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Why would I look up a case when I agree that the scene was not rape.

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I'm not addressing you, I'm asking the people who said it was rape.

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According to the director of the film, on the commentary of the official DVD, Libby did rape him. I wondered why it looked and felt like a rape scene. Now everyone knows the truth, and there is no possible way to follow this with any sort of argument! *waits patiently for arguments*

Also, all thos dudes saying they want to be raped by Ellen Page are freaking me out, am I the only one who thought who she looked pre-adolecent? I love her but daaamn, she looked almost the same as she did in Trailer Park Boys.



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Then the Director didn't do a good enough job showing a rape scene. Based on the scene I watched it was not rape.

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But based on reality, it was rape.





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Not the way the scene played out. If that happened in real life there is no prosecutor that would touch the case.

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"If that happened in real life there is no prosecutor that would touch the case."

Yes, that is a very, very sad truth. But based on what I saw, as someone who has experienced sexual assault, it was clearly sexual violation. If roles were reversed there would have been no question. Plus it made me feel uncomfortable in that way I do when I witness rape scenes. However, my opinion doesn't matter; if the director says it was rape, that's what it was no matter what you or I think.



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'clearly sexual violation' I agree with you but that does not make it rape. And my opinion does matter because the scene the director showed was not rape even if that is what he wanted it to be.

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sexual violition = rape. How was it sexual violation, and not rape?

'The scene director showed wasn't rape even if that's what he wanted it to be', if you look at the sentence closely it's contradictory. Just because you got the scene completely wrong doesn't mean that it definitly wasn't rape, it just means you apparently haven't suffered anything like it and don't know what to look for.

I'm mostly interested in how you differ between rape and sexual violation though. How can you say he was violated, with sex, and not raped? I'm sorry but it just makes no sense.



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Not all sexual violation = rape. Rape would be the most extreme of sexual violation. Just like murder is the worse of killing someone, but not everyone that kills someone is a murderer.

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So how does the murder analogy work on the sexual violation issue? Are you saying it was kind-of rape? A lot of sexual assault but when the penetration came it was completely consensual?

Just finish this sentence for me, if possible: He was sexually violated by her, including forcing penetrative sex, but it wasn't rape because...



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I can't finish that sentence because she was not forcing the actual penetration. As soon as she put his hands in her gushy spot she was able to mount him without force.

Here is a definition of sexual assault. http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentI D=32369#1

It shows that Rape is not the only type of Sexual Assault. I've already given detailed explanation of why it was not rape.

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I'm not a moron, ok, I know what sexual assualt is, the problem is that you don't. She forced sex on him, and he was saying no. Say no = nonconsensual. I'm not going to keep trying to convince you that it was rape, because your responses are non-informative and incorrect and it's getting boring.

In every possible way you look at it (unless you're an idiot who thinks women can't rape men unless they're unconcious) it was forced penetration. Just because he didn't physically assault her doesn't mean it was consensual. He was passively struggling, and saying no. A woman can say no part way through intercourse and have it count as rape (there is a precedent, look it up if you don't believe me), and yet this does not? The law says if you say no, it's nonconsensual, there's not a 'didn't struggle enough' clause attached to it.

Despite all this and the fact the director SAID it was rape really should convince any other intelligent person that it was in fact rape. Hence, why I can't be bothered with you any more. I just hope you don't get raped and have deal with someone try tell you you weren't raped, merely because you didn't struggle convincingly enough.


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A man can raped by a man in many situations but this was not one of them. If the exact same situation happens to me then if I end up having sex it will not be rape. I may regret it and feel bad about it but I would have not been raped. You can try to insult me all you want to make yourself feel better about your point but that doesn't change my opinion or reasons.

You told me that Sexual Assault = Rape a few posts above. I showed proof that it doesn't always equal Rape.

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I feel great about my point without insulting you, as it is researched and correct. I said sexual violation = rape, and rape is a form of sexual violation. I didn't realise you were a guy, that explains your lack of insight on the topic: people will react to danger in different ways. Maybe you have confidence and self-esteem, that's why in this situation you feel that you would have behaved manlier. But this was a very shy, underconfident, abused and socially inept guy, people who are like that often will freeze or go into panics/mental voids or blanks when confronted with a situation like this.

But because you can't see yourself responding in that way, you're saying it's in no way possible for anyone to ever behave like that in response to sexual assault from a trusted friend? Even though it's a common and quite known psychological occurence for men and women, you're still going to deny any possiblity just because it doesnt fit in to how you would respond?

Maybe, just maybe, there are other men in this world who have different psychological make-up than you, who would react that way, and that's what it's based on. If he were a confident guy who could stick up for himself and react the right way when it counts, then his character wouldn't make sense in this plot.

Ok, now I'm done. Hopefully once and for all.


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This is a guy that can smash people over the head with a wrench who cut in line when he has his mask on. She put his mask on during the sex so he would be in the mind frame to stop her if she was raping him.

I am not saying that no woman can rape any guy. I'm sure I could make a long list if I wanted to of ways a woman could rape a guy, but in this scene it was not rape.

I am taking into account not only the physical differences between the two but the mental and emotional. I am looking at what we have seen Frank being able to do after his transformation. I have watched Libbi's actions and words to Frank. I watched the scenes before the sex was happening I watched the scenes of the actual sexual act. I watched the loving embrace they gave each other after it was over with. I watched the regret of him having sex after he physically throws her off with no effort. I watched both his actions and her actions after the scene where he simply tells her its time to rescue his wife. An action I don't see anyone doing after they was raped by their partner.

I think an interesting scene that shows women raping a man is from True Blood. Jason is kidnapped, wounded and almost dying while not only his girlfriend but her family keep having sex with him in order to get knocked up. Even though Jason is stronger then all of them he is unable to stop it.

The story between King Arthur and his sister, where she uses magic to trick him into having sex with her so she could have his son I would consider that a form of rape as well.

I'm sure I could think of other examples that would show men can be raped by women.


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"She put his mask on during the sex so he would be in the mind frame to stop her if she was raping him."

This was never suggested, it seems it was something you just took out of it. What I took out of it was she was putting the mask on him to partly impair him, but mostly because she was getting off on the superhero thing.

"I watched the loving embrace they gave each other after it was over with."

Ok, maybe that's the male equivelant of a loving embrace, I just saw a three second confused, post-orgasm rest.

"I watched the regret of him having sex after he physically throws her off with no effort."

Of course he was able to after it was over. Didn't you read what I said about the psychology of a man like that? It doesn't matter that he was physically stronger, during the act he was most likely frozen in panic. A man who has, in his mind, never been physically desired by a woman would have difficulty dealing with forceful sexual assault. I thought I explained that already.

"...An action I don't see anyone doing after they was raped by their partner."

Yes, but what reactions have you seen? Have you even dealt with any kind of sexual assault on a personal level? All your references are from TV shows and books, and you are completely denying that there's any way a man can be raped by a woman unless he's being blackmailed or black spelled.

And again, maybe that's the case with you. But he is socially underdeveloped, depressed and confused, it was rape because she unknowingly took advantage of this. All your arguments seem to be assumptions you have made based on what you saw, nothing you've said is definitive or provable, so keep in mind two things: one, you have never been raped, nor witnessed a rape before (so how would you know what certain reactions and expressions mean?), and two THE DIRECTOR SAID IT WAS RAPE. No matter what you inferred, you have gotten it completely wrong.




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The scene where he has to go get dress up to stop the guy that cut in line is proof that he needs the mask in order to do his thing. This would make sense he would have the same empowerment when she put the mask on him.

I seen a three second hugging the stuffing out of her. He pulled her to him to give that hug.

There was no panic in his eyes during the sex, he felt ashamed he was doing it but no panic at all. I'm going off of his facial responses and his body movement.

Any negative response to her at all, even a dirty look at her. Something to show that he felt any form of negative feelings for her.

I told you I could give more examples, I just gave you two examples of a man being raped, but didn't say those were the only two examples out there. I even said I could come up with a long list of different reasons if I wanted. The Jason story was not blackmailed or black spelled at all.

Of course I am basing my opinion on what I saw because I am judging a scene in a movie. I am basing my opinion on the evidence of the movie. There is no court in this world that could prove that Frank was raped if you are talking about real proof. The directer may have wanted the scene to be a rape scene, but he failed at providing that in my opinion.


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Yes, but you're stating opinion like fact, when you actually have no knowledge of anything you're talking about, which can easily explain why it didn't feel like a rape scene to you. I don't care to hear your examples, because I know many and I don't really care about that, I'm just confused as to why you're still fighting this point when you have no real experiences and nothing substantial to back you up.
I saw panic and fear in his eyes, heard it in his voice, you didn't. You and I are clearly getting different meanings out of the same film, it has happened before and it doesn't necessarily mean either of us are right. However, the director of the film said I was right. If it didn't land for you, maybe it's because it went completely over your head, and if what you've said so far is really all the proof/argument you have, pretty sure that's what happened.


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Or it could be that the scene could have been done better to show an actual rape scene. I keep arguing because I stand behind my points of view. This reminds me of similar arguments I had with someone about the movie "Jennifer's Body", where I kept getting told the movie was a Jesus Allegory just because the directer said it was so.

I am more than happy to agree to disagree but I will not be changing my opinion on this subject.

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Wow, just wow. I can't see how anyone could not understand that to be a rape/sexual assault scene. The fact that the force was emotional manipulation and not physical is so irrelevant. The fact that a prosecutor may not feel compelled to push the case, or that a jury might find the facts confusing enough to not find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is beside the point. How can you watch that scene and not feel just awful for Frank and realize the confusion, shame, trauma and scar that such an event would place upon his life. So much so that the only way he could deal with it...



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was to immediately go out to Jauque's ranch and commit mass murder.

Yes, Boltie looked "hot" in that costume, and I get Cosplay. But this was clearly not something he wanted and he was not in control of the situation or his body at the time of the assault. In law, you take your victims as they are, not as you would expect them to be, if only they were paragons of strength and virtue. You don't blame the woman who isn't strong enough to fight off the male rapist. You should not find the male victim complicit because he wasn't strong enough emotionally and physically to prevent his own erection and/or push her off. The whole event was over in about 3 seconds too. Many people would take that long to build the will to physically act out on the verbal "NO" that he had already unequivocally stated.

I think in the end that this was actually a much darker movie than a lot of people were prepared to see, and no doubt there are many who lack the empathy or whatever to accept what it really says about the whole "Superhero" thing. The fact that the movie's story is placed in the context of reality, and the actions on the screen are shown to have real consequences, is why, IMO, this is actually a very, very good film. But in order to appreciate how good it is, you have to sympathize (if not empathize) with Frank's character and understand how he is both a heroic and tragic figure. If all you did was enter the theater expecting to have a good time laughing at "Dwight from The Office", you will be sorely disappointed with this movie. I would suggest you skip it and rent "The Rocker" instead.

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The only Trauma that I seen from the event was that he lost her because she was killed. I'm not saying what Libby did to frank was not wrong or an form of sexual assault, I just don't consider it to be classified severe enough to call it rape.

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Forcing sex on someone is rape. Just because a court may have trouble convicting Libby in this situation does not make it anything but rape.

About the mask, that was for Libby to get off on, it had nothing to do with empowering Frank.




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But she was not using physical force. And I'm using the mask as an example to show how empowered he gets when wearing the mask. You notice this when he has to go get it for the line cutters. He also freaked out whenever someone tried to take the mask off of him.

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Rape is rape. Come on, it's simple. He said no, he gave some form of physical resistance (yeah, he probably didn't use his full strength to resist); it's rape.

A woman can do the same thing. She might even be attracted to the man she is with, but not want to have sex for a wide variety of reasons. Just because she didn't grab a weapon nearby and hit him on the head when she was saying "no" and waving her hands in protest in spite of a weapon being next to her doesn't mean she wasn't raped.

It doesn't require the situation to be completely unavoidable to count as rape. All that counts is a person's refusal, and Frank definitely tried earnestly to refuse.

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I disagree because the scene doesn't show rape in my opinion. I've already explained my reasons. We can agree to disagree.

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Or who feel the scene didn't convince me it was rape. It is a difference of opinion.

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Yeah. I think that people who think it's not rape need to ask how they would interpret that scene if the roles were switched around. Libby's trying to sleep and Frank comes in and asks for sex. She rebuffs him and he starts trying to convince her while stroking his dick. As she continues to say no he gets more angry and agitated. He then rips the blanket off her climbs on top of her and phsyically forces a sexual encounter.

I think anyone would say that was definitely rape. So why isn't it rape the other way around? Cause Frank has a dick?

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I disagree because the scene doesn't show rape in my opinion. I've already explained my reasons. We can agree to disagree.


I must disagree to simply disagree, because I don't think rape is a matter of opinion! We have to set some strict rules, like just because a woman gets wet but says "no" and later submits when the man doesn't stop doesn't nullify the fact that it's rape. When someone says no and struggles, and the perpetrator doesn't make any conscious attempt to stop what they are doing and goes in with the intent of forcing the person to have sex regardless of what happens, that is an undeniable and clear cut case of rape as far as I see it -- plain and simple. We can't really make laws and punish something unless we can clearly define it.

The subject of the victim being able to stop it is also a moot point as far as I see. Someone could have the power to avoid being murdered. Maybe they had a weapon nearby that they didn't really want to use. Does that mean they weren't murdered because they weren't powerless to prevent it? No, absolutely not. A crime is a crime regardless of whether the victims were capable of preventing it.

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I know this is a old thread, but it just goes to show how people can see the same thing and take away something totally different. First off, I figured he wasn't all that smart (being that he thought he could get away with being a masked vigilante and not have anyone recognize him/not get caught; also, you could tell it wasn't well thought out at all at first by seeing his reactions when he confronted the drug dealers in particular and he was at a loss as to what to do and looked surprised when guns were pulled on him and he just ran)[Wow, I can do run-ons like nobody's business! and b/c this is informal forum and it's late, I don't care enough correct it. I hope that doesn't give you the impression I'm a moron. I'll cop to lazy, but not moron:P] Anyhoo,to get to my point...

What I saw in the scenarios you mentioned:
~him running to the car to get a weapon and throwing on the mask so he wouldn't be recognized.
~him not realizing his mask could be grabbed and used against him.

Just wanted to put my 2cents in. Cheers! :D

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I think that did make him a bit more realistic. I doubt anyone that was really intelligent would try to get away with dressing up as a super hero without any actual fighting or military experience. Not even law enforcement. He was way out of his league but his heart was in the right place. Although I don't think Libby, his wife or even the drug dealer were all that intelligent.

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Libby was very aggressive and went against Frank's initial wishes about having sex but during the actual sex he was willing to have sex with her.


No, Frank submitted to Libby. Submission does NOT mean consent.

Physical force is not the only way rapists subdue their victims. Take, for example, a person in a position of power who uses their high ranking status to exploit their subordinates. It is not unheard of for an higher-ranking soldier or officer in the military to order those under their command to perform sexual acts. Prisons, too, have experienced such abuse of power. As a result, many of the victims submit out of fear for the consequences.

Now, the above "power abuse" is not applicable to Frank's and Libby's situation. However, as rlippman-2 already pointed out, Libby emotionally manipulated Frank. Additionally, she knew that he wouldn't seriously hurt her, and she knew he was vulnerable (injured leg, tired, upset about his wife), and she knew that he trusted her. With this in mind, Frank's attempts to push Libby off were as legitimate as any other victim's. During the actual sex he submitted (which does NOT mean consent!). He stopped struggling as much, went into shock and denial, and then finally accepted what was happening.

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Too many people here are arguing he was erect because of some other reason--it was his evolutionary response, it was the temperature, whatever. All of that is totally irrelevant. I'm sure he was attracted to Ellen Page. Who wouldn't be in that outfit? The point is he said no. Why did he say no if part of him wanted to screw? Maybe he thought she was a ho and didn't want to risk an STD. Maybe he didn't want to risk getting her pregnant. Maybe he didn't want the emotional attachment that comes with sex. And maybe it was exactly what he said, he had morals that took precedence over desire. The reason is irrelevant. He said no, end of story.

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UH-OH! RETARD ALERT! RETARD ALERT, CLASS!

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Congratulations on insulting everyone that's ever been raped.

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