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Tara grins broadly at the students as they enter, her good mood almost super-human.

"Hey. Only three weeks until the end of term, huh? I don't know about you, but that kind of snuck up on me! So today we've got a pretty heavy discussion topic, and I want you to remember that this is just a class. Emo Closet is there if you need it, although I hope we call all be gentle enough with one another that it won't be necessary, okay?

"Because today, folks, we're going to be talking about rape - and all I'm going to ask you folks to do is define it."

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Re: OOC Discussion

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Yeah, the mood thing? Seriously, imagine you're in a class, where you walk in and the teacher is happy and smiling and cheerful, and suddenly it's "Okay, today we're talking about rape." It looks bad, whether Tara has IC reasons for yay happy or not.

Rape is not a topic I like to discuss. Ever. It raises my blood pressure, it makes me testy, and last night I was honest to god clenching my jaw about the whole subject. No matter what Shane says, my reaction was not knee-jerk. In fact, I'd phrase everything the exact same way now. The mood coupled with the topic is one thing. The fact that it comes on the heels of the whole Angel situation doesn't help (see Rory's IC reaction for explanation of that). I did not read the Tara bit with Crowley because of the warning. I had trouble reading the Angel-Rory bit because of the subject matter. When 1 in 4 girls are the victim of rape/sexual abuse/assault by the time they're in college, it's going to be one of those subjects that are going to get people fuming, especially when it's brought up casually, for discussion. I know you talked about your own experiences, and while I've never been raped myself, I've held the hands of way too many of my friends through this sort of thing to not find the manner of the questioning or the questions themselves acceptable, especially for a game that's supposed to be fun. I do not like sending my character to class and getting stressed about it. And coming on the heels of the master/slave assignment that I had massive problems with (and really, if Quinn had been the slave, she would have raised IC hell then, and the fact that she wasn't was the only reason she or I went through with it), where I saw you say OOCly that you hadn't expected it to become such a big thing, the fact that we're now discussing this honestly kind of boggles.

So that's where I'm coming from.

Re: OOC Discussion

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*I've held the hands of way too many of my friends through this sort of thing to not find the manner of the questioning or the questions themselves acceptable,

Should be unacceptable. It's early.