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It continuously amazes me how often fanfics use rape as a storyline for hurt/comfort fics. Sometimes (like today) it really annoys me, considering that most often it's the femal character who endures, and then becomes the love interest for any one fo the other characters. For example. I just watched the second half of this really cute (kinda sad) episode of season 4 Stargate SG1, "Divide And Conquer." It had this really shippy moment between Carter and O'Neill that kinda took me by surprise (after a rather funny incident where the alien girl hits on O'Neill, which also suprised me because I seriously thought none of these people got laid, like EVER), and I thought I might explore and see if Sam/Jack is a pairing that I'd like to read. I did consider it once before, after that time-loop episode where he kissed her, but then never really tried to get into because I'm not all "Yippee!" about that show/fandom in the first place. However, this eppy was kinda touching, in a different way since most of the show's touching moments end up being about platonic comeraderie/frienship and loyalties therein. On screen, in this episode, the Sam/Jack shippiness was restrained and kind of sad, but in a well-acted and sappy way.

So I go to ff.net, set the filters to Carter, O'Neill, 'all ratings', and 'romance.'

And lo and behold, the fourth-- FOURTH!-- fic that turns up on the list is a hurt/comfort story involving rape as Sam's "dark secret." ::gag:: Ugh. I mean, come ON. Why does this show up in EVERY FREAKIN fandom? I swear, there hasn't been a fandom I've come across yet where I can't go patrolling a list of fanfictions and find a rape fic. Reversely, I've only really read 1 good fanfic that deals with the topic of rape in a way that didn't on some level irritate or offend me, and that was lordshiva's Daemons Luminati fanfic. And that one involved the sodomy/rape of a male character.

Why the obsession with this cliche and often sexist storyline for nearly any pairing imaginable? And why, if they're going to write about it, do they all have to suck so badly?

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Omake: (how the viewing went)

**O'Neill & Carter discuss the fact that they omitted something in the lie-detector test that had to do with their ranks & working relationship**

Rashaka: Hey, I don't remember this. I don't think I've seen this episode after all.
Dad-unit: I haven't either. [a rare thing, considering Dad's become a SG1 DVD-phile now.]
Rashaka: What'd they do, anyway? Have sex, kiss, accidentally grope each other or something?
Dad-unit: They had a tender moment.
Rashaka: That's it?
Dad-unit: It was tender.
Rashaka: *makes disgusted noises* This show is so P-G!
Dad-untit: There was a force field between them.
Rashaka: *huffs*

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