WrongBot comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: gjm 07 October 2010 09:12PM

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Comment author: WrongBot 03 November 2010 04:01:55PM 1 point [-]

Ah. I guess the laws of narrative causality demand that Draco Malfoy actually be a female 13 year-old rapist pregnant with Harry's baby. Given what he's up against, Harry really needs to be as fully-qualified a protagonist as possible.

I wonder if Dumbledore was the one who arranged it...

Comment author: MartinB 03 November 2010 07:18:38PM 0 points [-]

Males don't get raped. At least not till 1992. There will be a trope for that too.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 03 November 2010 07:51:11PM 1 point [-]

Sorry, what's meant by this?

Comment author: MartinB 03 November 2010 08:02:36PM *  1 point [-]

This trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale and this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_(film) Which brought the topic of males getting raped into the realm of the acceptable legal topics. Obviously it is not okay to rape anyone, but in many cases males have problems getting heard when it happens to them. Same goes for domestic violence.

Edit: added 2 missing words

Comment author: Document 03 November 2010 08:29:27PM 0 points [-]

Huh. I initially upvoted assuming it was a reference to some law passed in the UK.