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Eskaver wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote: I have one final question: Why is everyone making it like the writers are condoning what Gothel did? They specifically did that to show how she is a terrible person. No one was upset when Cruella murdered her mother and then her mother's dogs, because the point was she was a terrible person. Many people actually love that episode. How come showing murder and cruelty to animals for entertainment is okay? That is a fallacy: False equivalence. It doesn’t prove anything whatsoever.

What Cruella did was terrible. She was an awful person. She was treated like an awful person. She died like the awful person that she was.

No one is saying “Oh no, they showed a bad thing on TV!” It’s about the show’s history and handling. But it comes off as "they showed rape by deception, how dare they, real people get raped". Yet real people get murdered and real people are cruel to animals, and no one got upset about those things. It says to me everyone is okay with murder being used as a plot device, but all of a sudden when it is rape, it's treated totally differently. And the acts themselves are not that different. One is saying the person doesn't have the right to consent, and the other is saying the person doesn't have the right to live. Both have to do with one person thinking they can control another person and what happens to them, against that person's will.