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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-03-20 09:16 am
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-03-20 09:16 am
About rape; srs post tax below
So say a guy gets drunk, buddy buddy with some other guy while he's drunk, and they go off somewhere to sleep it off together. A few weeks after waking up the next morning, the first guy discovers that he's feeling kind of sick, and getting swollen, like there's some kind of hideous parasite living inside his guts. Turns out the other guy put it there.
Is the first guy at fault?
I just ask because this seems to be a common attitude towards rape victims, and that annoys me. The "qualifying factors" don't matter. It doesn't matter what the clothing worn was, the behavior was, it doesn't matter if they consented at first because they were too inebriated to realize they didn't want to have sex. Choosing to get someone drunk in order to try to trick them into having sex with you would be a criminal act, so why are you defending the criminal? Trying to force someone else to do something they wouldn't normally want to do is criminal no matter how you slice it. Especially if it results in putting a parasitic creature inside the other person that could very well kill that person. (Yes, childbirth can kill! It can also wound someone for the rest of their life if it DOESN'T kill them! It's not some awesome thing to be carrying the child of someone you didn't want to have sex with in the first place, all right.)
Should there be degrees? Totally. A pair of folks who were BOTH drunk and out of it and then fucked? I think that needs to be talked out, not criminalized. But the majority of cases of rape that even get reported are not situations like this, and making excuses about it is ridiculous.
The annoying thing is, I see great, forward-thinking writing on the subject often, but the commenters on these much-more-trafficked-than-my-piddly-blog sites will generally chorus in with a lot of judgmental trash about how 'still but women shouldn't be wearing XYZ, it's SO slutty'. Dude, NO. Women should be allowed to wear whatever, and you should be adult enough to either walk by unaffected, or if it's in YOUR HOUSE to politely ask the woman if she could wear something a little less sexy, since it's distracting for you.
Anyway, serious post tax. Making interesting criminals for a city!
How I did it:
1. Roll 3d6. The number you roll is the number of active, non-imprisoned criminals currently out and about in town.
2. Make a numbered list, but no names yet. Roll 1d6 for each criminal; odds are male, evens female.
3. Now fill out the names as fit the naming scheme of your setting.
4. Create a 12-option list of potential crimes. See below for mine.
5. Roll 2d6 on the list for each criminal and assign as you see fit.
6. Assign nicknames that the locals might use to refer to the criminal.
Ta-da!
Example:
1 - F - Eloise - 1 - Effigy Eloise
2 - F - Marie - 4 - Mad Marie the Slasher
3 - F - Cecelia - 8 - Cecelia of the Moors
4 - M - Claude - 1 - Kerosene Claude
5 - M - Maurice - 1 - Matchstick Maurice
6 - M - Raoul - 6 - Raoul Redcheeks
7 - F - Perrine - 11 - Perrine the Pickpocket
8 - F - Seraphine* - 12 - Seraphine Sweetness
9 - F - Suzanne - 3 - Suzanne Stabber
Chart:
1 Arson
2 Rape
3 Murder
4 Violent crime (not murder)
5 Graffiti
6 Public indecency
7 Libel/slander
8 Political crime
9 Bombing
10 Serial murder
11 Theft
12 Innocent of whatever charges
* - The hilarious coincidence of Seraphine being innocent was totally unplanned, but hooray for luck and online dice rollers!
I won't pretend I lean to anything but silly alliterative names, because that would be misleading, but y'know, people who aren't me might have better luck with serious names (and criminals).
Also, if you are a D&D buddy and missed it, the post below has thoughts on handling resurrection in tabletop if you're interested. Check it out.
Is the first guy at fault?
I just ask because this seems to be a common attitude towards rape victims, and that annoys me. The "qualifying factors" don't matter. It doesn't matter what the clothing worn was, the behavior was, it doesn't matter if they consented at first because they were too inebriated to realize they didn't want to have sex. Choosing to get someone drunk in order to try to trick them into having sex with you would be a criminal act, so why are you defending the criminal? Trying to force someone else to do something they wouldn't normally want to do is criminal no matter how you slice it. Especially if it results in putting a parasitic creature inside the other person that could very well kill that person. (Yes, childbirth can kill! It can also wound someone for the rest of their life if it DOESN'T kill them! It's not some awesome thing to be carrying the child of someone you didn't want to have sex with in the first place, all right.)
Should there be degrees? Totally. A pair of folks who were BOTH drunk and out of it and then fucked? I think that needs to be talked out, not criminalized. But the majority of cases of rape that even get reported are not situations like this, and making excuses about it is ridiculous.
The annoying thing is, I see great, forward-thinking writing on the subject often, but the commenters on these much-more-trafficked-than-my-piddly-blog sites will generally chorus in with a lot of judgmental trash about how 'still but women shouldn't be wearing XYZ, it's SO slutty'. Dude, NO. Women should be allowed to wear whatever, and you should be adult enough to either walk by unaffected, or if it's in YOUR HOUSE to politely ask the woman if she could wear something a little less sexy, since it's distracting for you.
Anyway, serious post tax. Making interesting criminals for a city!
How I did it:
1. Roll 3d6. The number you roll is the number of active, non-imprisoned criminals currently out and about in town.
2. Make a numbered list, but no names yet. Roll 1d6 for each criminal; odds are male, evens female.
3. Now fill out the names as fit the naming scheme of your setting.
4. Create a 12-option list of potential crimes. See below for mine.
5. Roll 2d6 on the list for each criminal and assign as you see fit.
6. Assign nicknames that the locals might use to refer to the criminal.
Ta-da!
Example:
1 - F - Eloise - 1 - Effigy Eloise
2 - F - Marie - 4 - Mad Marie the Slasher
3 - F - Cecelia - 8 - Cecelia of the Moors
4 - M - Claude - 1 - Kerosene Claude
5 - M - Maurice - 1 - Matchstick Maurice
6 - M - Raoul - 6 - Raoul Redcheeks
7 - F - Perrine - 11 - Perrine the Pickpocket
8 - F - Seraphine* - 12 - Seraphine Sweetness
9 - F - Suzanne - 3 - Suzanne Stabber
Chart:
1 Arson
2 Rape
3 Murder
4 Violent crime (not murder)
5 Graffiti
6 Public indecency
7 Libel/slander
8 Political crime
9 Bombing
10 Serial murder
11 Theft
12 Innocent of whatever charges
* - The hilarious coincidence of Seraphine being innocent was totally unplanned, but hooray for luck and online dice rollers!
I won't pretend I lean to anything but silly alliterative names, because that would be misleading, but y'know, people who aren't me might have better luck with serious names (and criminals).
Also, if you are a D&D buddy and missed it, the post below has thoughts on handling resurrection in tabletop if you're interested. Check it out.