I gave up watching entire episodes of Glee for the most part (though I briefly checked in to watch “Mash-Off” because I liked all the songs). As someone who likes to pay attention to Things Going On in the media, however, I have read other reviews of the latest batch of episodes and absorbed some of the major storylines.
Over the past two and a half years, Glee has transitioned from a dark comedy to a show about messages. The Glee 3-D Concert Movie (or whatever the official title is, I can’t be bothered to look it up) was a movie dedicated to the show kissing its own ass about how many wonderful messages it sends kids these days.
Well, I’d like to take a moment to talk about the lessons I have learned from these years of watching Glee.
1. Bullying is serious business, except when it’s not.
The bullying of Kurt is bad, except when he’s being comically tossed into dumpsters. Sue calling Kurt “Lady” is bullying, but Sue shoving an old woman down a flight of stairs is hilarious. Artie being locked in a Port-a Potty is serious, but a one-off joke about Puck shoving Artie down stairs in his wheelchair is perfectly acceptable.
Why are some instances serious and worthy of public service announcements while others are meant to be hilarious? Uh, because the writers said so.
2. Ambitious women need to be put in their places.
It’s not enough for Rachel Berry to have to learn the same lesson over and over again about being too ambitious and stepping all over other people to get what she wants. Now, she has to learn a lesson and be put in her place even when she cheats to help a friend. Even when she does something for another person, she needs to learn a lesson about wanting things too much. How dare Rachel want things for herself and other people.
(As a side note, I hope this particular item on the list will discourage posters from being overly concerned that I’m not kissing Lea Michele’s ass enough for their tastes. For the record: I neither love nor hate Rachel Berry, I neither love nor hate Lea Michele, I acknowledge that Lea is a very talented singer, but I often don’t enjoy watching her perform, and nothing you say will make me change my mind. The performers I enjoy watching the most are Darren Criss, Naya Rivera, Harry Shum Jr., and Chris Colfer, and that’s a completely subjective opinion, not a fact.)
3. Lesbians exist as more than objects for the male gaze, except for when they don’t.
I can’t think of a better song for a lesbian to sing about being out and proud than Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl,” the anthem for bi-curious women who like to kiss other women for the sake of titillating their boyfriends, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate female homosexuality than to have a bunch of girls writhe all over each other to please their male classmates and fellow club members.
Oh, wait. Yes. Yes, I can. I can think of many better ways to do that.
4. Bullies all secretly hate themselves and are deeply insecure people.
They’re never narcissists with inflated senses of entitlement who honestly don’t care about the feelings of others, despite overwhelming research that proves just this.
5. Straight people get to decide when gay people should come out of the closet./Boys get to decide when girls have to face their issues./Friends are allowed to tell friends how to handle their problems.
Remember, folks, if you have a friend (or frenemy, or someone you once banged and then described the experience as meaning “nothing” to you who you now suddenly care about) who is dealing with a personal problem, the best way to help that friend is to put said friend in a forced intervention. If the friend objects to this show of support for whatever reason, you can ignore it, because you know what’s good for your friend better than your friend does. Besides, if the friend initially is sarcastic, s/he’ll eventually be completely grateful for your forced help. Just keep persisting.
After all, we all know that “no” really means “yes.”
Speaking of which…
6. Rape is still totally hilarious.
Brittany described her first time having sex as taking place in cheerleading camp when a boy crawled into her tent. Then she says it was an “alien invasion.” So, she was probably raped. LOL, right?
Gosh, folks, I have so many more important lessons that I have learned from watching Glee, but I don’t have the time to write them all! Why don’t you readers add to the list in comments, and share the wonderful things you have learned from this remarkably progressive and message-y show!
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Related to your first point about bullying, the thing I really hate about Glee is how inconsistent/hypocritical they are with their messages. They keep pretending that they’re the most inclusive and non-judgemental show on the air, but that’s a load of bull. They hammer it home that it’s not okay to be homophobic, sexist or ableist, but it’s apparently okay to make tons of fat jokes. I stopped watching after Lauren was (temporarily, of course) introduced as a regular supporting character – not because I didn’t want to see a fat girl on TV, but because I didn’t want to see a fat girl who was constantly belittled. There were jokes about her overeating, her unathletic build (despite being on the wrestling team!) and entire songs about her figure, as if it was the only thing that defined her. I love the song “Fat Bottomed Girls”, but serenading Lauren with it is just as condescending as Rachel serenading Kurt with “Born This Way”.
In other words, fuck you, Glee.
Yeah, Lauren Zizes was a weird character in that respect. I really liked that she was a fat girl who wasn’t insecure, who liked herself for who she was, and even seemed to like her body for what it was, which is so rare when you see fat people on TV or in movies. But, at the same time, OTHER PEOPLE couldn’t stop making all the fat jokes in the world about her, and it was just so grossly offensive.
Regarding number 5; If someone doesn’t want to participate in the intervention you’ve put together for them, blackmailing them is a perfectly fine solution. They’ll thank you in the end.
Also, outing someone in public and then acting like it’s no big deal is not provocative at all.
Oh, and single mothers need the help of boys half their age to talk to doctors about their child’s health.
Which reminds me, motherhood is a sacred bond and a mother willingly being separated from her child will eventually regret her decision and then end up in a dark, dark place. With a side of “mentally ill people are dangerous and awful”.
Which reminds me, motherhood is a sacred bond and a mother willingly being separated from her child will eventually regret her decision and then end up in a dark, dark place
And let’s not forget that “giving a child up for adoption” and “acting as a surrogate” are TOTES the same thing!
How about…
1. Non-white people are primarily defined by their non-white-ness, as evidenced by the habit of making near-constant references to the fact that they are, in fact, something other than white. Mercedes is always ready to bring her “chocolate thunder” to any song, and she and her boyfriend can’t wait to have “beautiful coco babies” after high school; and of course AsianAsianAsian just in case you missed the fact that Mike and Tina are Asian let’s make sure they mention it at least twice every episode–and at least three times for each of them whenever they have a scene together. Also–Asian.
*And a footnote on that: am I the only one that’s a little bothered by the fact that Mike and Tina have the same last name, but aren’t related? I know that Tina’s name is hyphenated, but they both have “Chang” somewhere in their names. That’s always bugged me–it somehow seems to imply that there is only one Asian sir name in the world.
2a. It’s perfectly OK to shame young women over their sexual behavior–both slut shaming and prude shaming are welcome. Young women are to be subjected to this treatment, but not young men; it’s fine for them to have sex (Finn, Puck) or not (Kurt) as they choose without public backlash or any kind, unless the sexual behavior in question involved cheating. (Actually, now I think about it, Glee’s “Prude” Shaming is even worse than its “slut” shaming. Remember the dressing down Rachel and Emma got from Holly Holiday in “Sexy”? It actually was pretty harsh, considering that their only crime was darning to make a different choice about their sexuality than Holly did about hers.)
2b. It’s totally fine, and even a little justified, for a man to make a woman feel like she’s done something terrible by refusing his sexual advances.
3. It makes all kinds of sense to let your friends put one member of the group down about the way she looks, and then lead those same people in an intervention for her when she decides that she wants to have plastic surgery. This is in no way bizzare or hyopcritical.
Specifically with regards to 2a, I despise how Glee treats sex – I thought they did a terrible job (like, the absolute worst, to the point where I was shaking in anger) during season two’s Sexy and I don’t think they really (as in, at all) improved their track record in season three’s First Time.
Their prude-shaming is horrific and is part of what outraged me in Sexy. It’s cool if you want to have sex, lots of it, or none and then the show had Holly Holiday tell Emma that she was frigid? A woman who was struggling with severe OCD? I was aghast.
I agree–it was rediculous. I’m curious about your thoughts on “First Time.” What did you feel was poorly dealt with in particular?
I shouldn’t say they did as badly as they did with season two’s Sexy because that would honestly require effort, I imagine. But I was really uncomfortable with the way that Artie (who’s only partner was Brittany, that was know, and was upset about his first time because it wasn’t special to Brittany like it was to him) acted like a wise leader, directing Blaine and Rachel into their sexual awakening (when it was more like shaming them into it). And at the end of the episode, they all lauded him for it! I was sitting there wondering if that was really happening, but no, it was.
Nevermind that the entire scene with Coach Beiste was both inappropriate and condescending that just because she hasn’t had sex, Artie is more aware and intelligent and experienced enough to tell her what to do? Hmm.
I was pretty iffy on the Finn/Rachel sex scene. She thinks he’s made at her so she goes to his house… Proceeds to describe herself in so many negative ways and then tells him he’s going to get something special from her that she’s never given anyone else – instead of prude-shaming, they elevated virginity to ‘special’ status. It looked a lot like Rachel was having sex in order to make Finn feel special. And I was really uncomfortable with the fact that she had called herself so many negative things and he asked her what had changed instead of responding via comfort or reassurance…
The Blaine/Kurt scene was better done but I was still somewhat iffy about the fact that they had gotten into a major fight earlier and apparently, were taking it so slow that they barely made out but then decided that sex was the definite next step. I suppose it happens that way but what about exploring options like oral or…? There was, interestingly enough, no discussion about safety or expectations by any of the characters.
sigh
It’s Glee. What did I really expect anyway?
But I was really uncomfortable with the way that Artie (who’s only partner was Brittany, that was know, and was upset about his first time because it wasn’t special to Brittany like it was to him) acted like a wise leader, directing Blaine and Rachel into their sexual awakening (when it was more like shaming them into it.
And he was trying to tell them to have sex to enhance their PERFORMANCE, as they couldn’t believably perform something they hadn’t experienced themselves.
Said with a straight face by an actor who isn’t disabled playing someone who has a disability, in a scene with a lesbian playing a straight woman, a straight man playing a gay man, and a woman without OCD playing someone with OCD.
“And he was trying to tell them to have sex to enhance their PERFORMANCE, as they couldn’t believably perform something they hadn’t experienced themselves.”
I can think of some really bad reasons to decide to have sex for the first time, and while this one might not be at the top, it’s very, very close. I was amazed that anyone took that seriously, even in the context of the show.
Said with a straight face by an actor who isn’t disabled playing someone who has a disability, in a scene with a lesbian playing a straight woman, a straight man playing a gay man, and a woman without OCD playing someone with OCD.”
That hadn’t even occured to me…but it’s hillarious.
Also, these characters are supposed to be creative people by nature…meaning that they would all respect the importance and power of the imagination…and they believe that you have to expierence something in order to get it across in a performance? That’s realistic.
On the point about Artie’s behavior–I agree 100 per cent. He was acting very out of character for most of the epidsode: while he was telling Blaine and Rachel that they needed to lose thier virginity if they wanted to do well in this high school play, I kept thinking back to season two Artie, telling Brittany how hurt he was that she treated and expierence that he had wanted to be special in such a callous way. There’s no way that the Artie that ot his heart broken over how his first time was handled would sit there and tell his two friends to basically, “hurry up and lose it” for the sake of the show. From the begining, one of the good things about Glee was its characters–at least for me–which is why it’s so sad to see them written inconsistently like this.
Yeah, my mom was asking me why I had such a problem with Glee’s storylines this year, pointing out that the stories have ALWAYS been ridiculous. And I thought that was a good point. But then I realized that, in early Glee, even if the stories and plots were over the top and contrived, the CHARACTERS made sense and were well-written.
The double pregnancy? Stupid. And Quinn really behaved horribly to Finn. But the writing at least bothered to make me understand WHY she would do such a terrible thing, even though it was the wrong thing to do.
Well, in a lot of ways, Artie is one of the most inconsistently written characters. Sometimes he’s heartwarming and wonderful and other times he’s practically arrogant and misogynistic. Tina and him broke up because of the way he treated Tina, including telling her what looks he preferred on her, if I recall correctly. I used to really like Artie in, say, season one – but he’s a character that changes each episode it seems and I can’t really get into him anymore.
I was pretty iffy on the Finn/Rachel sex scene. She thinks he’s made at her so she goes to his house… Proceeds to describe herself in so many negative ways and then tells him he’s going to get something special from her that she’s never given anyone else – instead of prude-shaming, they elevated virginity to ‘special’ status. It looked a lot like Rachel was having sex in order to make Finn feel special. And I was really uncomfortable with the fact that she had called herself so many negative things and he asked her what had changed instead of responding via comfort or reassurance…
That whole “I feel bad for you because you’re having an emotional crisis, so I’ll give you my virginity to make you feel better” thing was awful. Just awful. That’s pretty high on the list of the worst reasons to make a decision like that. I can’t help but imagine regretting that one big time later…especially since Rachel always talked about waiting until she was established in her career to focus on that part of her life (sex/romance). Sigh. More uneven character development.
Also,regarding how Rachel was talking about herself: I hadn’t noticed this, but it reminds me very much of how her character has been handled in the past. “Rachel is ambitious and socially awkward, so let’s all beat up on her and tell her how awful she is! That’s a great idea!” And now they’ve got Rachel herself in on the act…it’s enouh to make you feel for the character even if you didn’t like her before hand.
It’s funny because I know how unpopular the opinion is but I really liked Rachel in first season – she was this character that just got shit upon constantly and I felt for her. She would cling to her talent and her superiority because that’s what got her through the day. I know a lot of people found her annoying but I related to that even though I never actually reacted to bullying that way myself.
And then season two happened and… Rachel became less intelligent but more manipulative? I don’t know… The second season took what was essentially a good show with, perhaps, slightly one-dimensional but satirically-balanced characters and just… Plowed it into the ground. sigh
I completely hear you. There was a time when I loved Rachel, even though I kind of go the feeling that we weren’t supposed to. Sometimes I still do love her, but I find myself in a love-hate place with her mor and more now…
Lets not forget about Sebastian, Glee’s new slutty twink villain and most recent victim of slut-shaming. It’s fine to present him as a villain for not respecting other peoples’ relationships, but then to turn that around and say that a major contributing factor to his villainy is the fact that he enjoys sex more than average is pretty offensive. The craigslist comment made from Kurt in Hold on to Sixteen was more annoying to me than it was funny. Ha ha, he’s comfortable with his sexuality, lets all point and laugh. What I wouldn’t give for Blaine to have come back just ten seconds later so I could see how Sebastian would have retorted to that. I find Sebastian to be a valuable character. I admire him and enjoy seeing him on the show because I love to see a gay character who’s sexuality has nothing to do with his story; in fact, its never even mentioned. He is Glee’s only example that being anything other than straight is not going to ruin, take over, or dominate your life and I really don’t want this show to turn that into a negative thing any more than they already have.
Though its probably worth mentioning that with Glee’s serious history of slut-shaming, I see a high possibility that they’ll have Sebastian suddenly recognize the ‘errors’ of this ways and fall in love with Blaine. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled off something like that.
The craigslist comment made from Kurt in Hold on to Sixteen was more annoying to me than it was funny. Ha ha, he’s comfortable with his sexuality, let’s all point and laugh.
I’m of two minds about that. On one hand, Kurt was going for a low blow after Sebastian basically started it by making an open play for Kurt’s boyfriend. On the other hand, as part of a larger pattern of slut-shaming on the show, it’s pretty egregious. (But I have to admit I still laughed.)
I admire him and enjoy seeing him on the show because I love to see a gay character who’s sexuality has nothing to do with his story; in fact, its never even mentioned.
I like having him on the show because he’s bringing back Kurt’s snarky, feisty side, and after seeing him be nothing but a put-upon sainted martyr for most of the season, it’s refreshing to see the side that made me like him in the first place: the one that’s not always perfect and the epitome of all that is good in the world.
Though its probably worth mentioning that with Glee’s serious history of slut-shaming, I see a high possibility that they’ll have Sebastian suddenly recognize the ‘errors’ of this ways and fall in love with Blaine.
I’m not sure the writers are going to make any person become a serious threat to the Kurt/Blaine relationship. They seem to like them too much. What I would like to see is Sebastian continue to have battle of wits over Blaine with Kurt, until he suddenly decides that being snarky with Kurt is more fun than pursuing Blaine, and decides he’s more attracted to Kurt. That would have more potential for comedy and I think Chris Colfer would play Kurt’s confusion very amusingly.
I didn’t completely hate “Sexy” because I liked the Burt-Kurt conversation (gender essentialism aside) and Santana’s longing looks at Brittany during “Landslide” just killed me. But the attitude in general was just disgusting and offensive and made me want to punch the TV screen, especially everything regarding Emma.
It was really just Holly coming down on everyone that I disliked; I love all thing Burt-Kurt (I’d love to see them interact on the show more often, actually) and I thought that “Landslide” was beautiful…even though Santana and Brittany technically could have handled it without Holly’s “help.”
I admit I do really like Chang Squared as a couple (and I do enjoy calling them Chang Squared), but yeah, the constant Asian references are annoying. I thought it started off as a cute inside joke between the two of them, but it’s happened so often that it’s crossed the line into writers just thinking that they’re being “edgy” by pointing out race.
It’s totally fine, and even a little justified, for a man to make a woman feel like she’s done something terrible by refusing his sexual advances.
I’m drawing a blank over what this is referring to specifically, and I don’t know if it’s because my memory is bad, or because this show is so offensive ALL THE TIME that I can’t remember every detail. Care to elaborate?
Actually, now I think about it, Glee’s “Prude” Shaming is even worse than its “slut” shaming. Remember the dressing down Rachel and Emma got from Holly Holiday in “Sexy”? It actually was pretty harsh, considering that their only crime was darning to make a different choice about their sexuality than Holly did about hers
Yup. I agree that their virgin-shaming is even worse than their slut-shaming. I think Tina is the only female character on the show who managed to avoid the brunt of either – when she wasn’t having sex, that was fine and her choice, and when she chose to do it, that was also fine and her choice. So of course she’s the female character with the least amount of story.
“It’s totally fine, and even a little justified, for a man to make a woman feel like she’s done something terrible by refusing his sexual advances.
I’m drawing a blank over what this is referring to specifically, and I don’t know if it’s because my memory is bad, or because this show is so offensive ALL THE TIME that I can’t remember every detail. Care to elaborate?
I was actually thinking of a particular scene in the last episode, which you many not have seen since you didn’t watch the whole thing. Basically, Puck tries to get Shelby to sleep with him, and when she refuses (very reasonably, seeing as she’s technically a teacher at his high school, even if he IS 18) he makes this slightly self-righteous speech about how she’s missing out on something good in refusing to be in a relationship with him, she’s making a big mitake, etc. etc. I guess you could call it typical macho talk, but there was also a tinge of shame in it, to me; a sort of “what’s wrong with you that you can’t recognize what a good thing I’m offering you,” vibe. In short, the message of the scene was pretty unacceptable…and I’m pretty sure that we were meant to sympathize with Puck.
What have I learned from Glee?
1. That it is A-OK to reject someone cruelly as long as you don’t have feelings for them. Subsequently, you can take it all back because you’ve been rejected and hurt and that makes it okay – that you’re using them. And when you tell them how awesome they are because you notice that, oh, maybe they’re actually really hurting, it’ll fix everything
2. If your friend is resisting the show of support you so thoughtfully organized, well, then, surround her and sing an inappropriate song so that she understand she’s the centre of attention whether she wants to be or not. it’s the best way to go! She’ll end up crying, but don’t worry, only good tears.
And that was just from this past episode ;->
Yes. Why should Santana be allowed to decide how she handles her own outing?
I hated the fact that first the choice to come out was taken away from Santana by Finn and the pizza politician and then Finn also got to decide how she should deal with that situation. The only scene that showed Santana actually being active and making a decision was the one where she came out to her grandmother – and that still wasn’t really her choice.
Let the girl do something for herself!
Amen! What Finn did to her was terrible. Frankly, I can’t believe that his behavior wasn’t condemned more on the show itself. He can out Santana in public and no one (but her) bats an eye at it…but she slaps him and everyone’s up in arms? I’m not saying that violence is good, but in this specific case I’d argue that his actions were worse than hers. But I guess we should be used to Finn getting a pass for the way he treats girls by now.
The thing is, I can forgive Finn for the initial conversation in the hallway. The ramifications of what he said to Santana were bad, worse than any realistic ramifications of what she said to him. BUT, she’s been dismissive to him at best, downright mean to him at worst, making fun of his weight all the time (and giving him mono). After that rant in the hallway, on top of all the shit she’s given him in the past, I can forgive him for deciding he’d finally had enough and just giving it to her where it hurts.
What I can’t forgive is the writers’ decision to make him the friggin HERO of her coming out story that saves her from herself.
I think that’s what irked me too… I mean, I don’t think what Finn did was right by any means but I understand that instinctive urge to hit someone where it hurts. And it was my impression that they weren’t having an overly-loud conversation so while they had no expectation of privacy, I don’t think the idea was that he meant to out her.
However, the way that Glee handled everything subsequently was terrible beyond belief. Santana could have been mad at Finn and he could’ve felt guilty or angry and it would’ve made more sense to me. Instead, he lied to “save” her and then organized an intervention for her, and forced her to be supported the way he felt she should be. Ugh. Just… You know what, badly done all around, Glee. But again, why do I expect more?
This show… I think’t it’s just trying to push as much buttons as it can and it is using two ways to deflect.
“It’s sarcasm, no, really, we are so over the top on purpose and we are trying to show that there are nuances which are ingored and people don’t think about, and that’s why we show that bullying is bad when outright direct but when it is not, people don’t pay attention”
“We are dead-serious and we are going to act as if we are the first show to ever scratch these serious topics. Aren’we EDGY!”
No Glee, you are not EDNGY! or even edgy… actually, I don’t think you are even ! but that’s my opinion.
The show is so… so horrible, I stopped watching and I can’t watch it for any reason. Also, I am so sick and tired of Lea Michelle’s voice. I hear they didn’t start giving solos to other artists so, yeah, fuck you show, fuck you very much.
Also, I am so sick and tired of Lea Michelle’s voice.
Shhh! Don’t say that, her stans will hear you!
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In other words, you’d probably enjoy the show more if it wasn’t trying to claim that it’s a “serious message” show, particularly about bullying and homosexuality.
This is why I pretty much willfully ignore any attempts to pretend its a serious message show. It takes a LOT of willful ignorance, though. A LOT.
Yes…and no. There’s also the fact that I find the majority of the musical numbers to be uninspired, and most of the comedy to be unfunny, and most of the characters horrible, and the “we’re all a family!” Message harder and harder to swallow when they spend more time tearing each other down and in-fighting than preparing for competitions.
Glee season 1 had in fighting and bad songs and bad jokes, too, but in much lower proportion to the believable family dynamic and good songs and good jokes, IMO.
This is disapointing.
I loved Glee season 1, and, though I had some problems with season 2, I liked it a lot too (especially since it gave us the Kurt/Blane ship). The show was better when it didn’t try to have a lot of “serious messages”.
So definitely not worth it to watch anymore?
I would argue that there are still a few things that make it worth watching (he musical numbers are still mostly good, and there are still at least a few characters with interesting story lines, etc.) Fotr me, personally, it’s Kurt, Santana, Daren Criss and occassionally Rachel that keep me comming back. If you haven’t watched in a little while, I would still encourage you to give it another go. I wouldn’t say it’s as good as season one, or even season two, but there are still things to love about it, in my opinion. You might agree.
I wish I shared your optimism. This latest episode ruined even Santana for me, and I didn’t think that was possible.
It also hurts my heart to see Kurt turn into a whiny, entitled, martyr-like pill of a buzzkill whose only role now is to hold his head up high and act bravely when the world is mean to him yet again and/or make a self-righteous comment that ruins everyone else’s fun. I missed when Kurt was an actual character and not just a walking public service announcement. But he’s just as much of a victim this year as he was last year, except last year he had to deal with his father almost dying, getting sexually harassed, and getting death threats, and this year his problems are all “Woe is me, I did not get the lead in the school play, I did not get elected class president, and I might not get into this college that I love SO MUCH that I didn’t even hear about it until a few months ago.” Like, seriously, Kurt – you’re not bullied anymore, you have a supportive father and stepmom and stepbrother, a best friend who’s willing to commit fraud just for your sake, an entire club of people who rallies around you to support you, and a gorgeous boyfriend who adores you and sings to you in public about how MUCH he adores you (not to mention transferred schools where he was top dog JUST to be with you). You’ve got a pretty decent life, kid. Stop complaining.
So yeah, it’s bad, REALLY bad, when I can’t even stand to watch Kurt anymore. The Darren Criss factor is the biggest reason for me to keep watching, but even then, I could just rewatch season 2 and A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel. I’ve got my ticket to How to Succeed and Imogene is coming out next year. I don’t need to watch Glee for glimpses of Darren Criss anymore. Boy’s everywhere.
I really agree with all the points you make in your article. The rape point especially disturbs me. I like ‘Glee’ mostly because of the music and dancing, but it frustrates me when they make a joke out of sexual assault. They did the same when they had Brittany accuse Beiste of sexually assaulting her, which turned out to be a lie to get her fired. Rape is never a joke, not even when it’s not real and making Brittany lie about something so traumatizing for the victims doesn’t help those women / girls who are met with suspicion, prejudices and doubt after experiencing something so terrible.
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