Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27079851-20171120082917/@comment-5106672-20171202035835

Utter solitude wrote: You don't get to decide what I care about. The whole "there are more important things to worry about!" argument is classic deflection. As if people can only worry about one issue at time, you know? XD

Further, what the show has going on is indicative of the real world, and a good way to gauge what real people think about real things. When we see rape on the show going unpunished, it shows us what at least some small part of Hollywood thinks of that situation. When we talk about it with our friends and associates, it shows us what they think of it too.

For someone not okay with rape, you sure are trying to justify it a whole ton. I don't mean to berate you for you opinion, it's just frustrating to think that anyone would be okay with this situation happening repeatedly on a popular show. I'm going to bow out of this discussion. I think I've made myself clear. I'm gonna cut a break to the writers here: they clearly, unambiguously framed Gothel's actions as bad. Let's not forget that this is the show where mass-murdering, abusive parent Cora apologises and goes to Heaven: punishment isn't exactly the point of the show. Even if Gothel went unpunished (for now), the writing was structured to paint her actions negatively, and that counts: the plot lets her get away with that, but the narration condemns her.