Someone else asked (perhaps rhetorically) about rape, TT and Thai BLs so I've been trying to further look into it, past het rape in lakorns. I thought you'd be interested in what I found.
There is a history of rape in het romances in Thai lakorns. In 2016, guidelines around gendered violence were introduced to curtail that. I made a connection with TT as it aired in 2019, about a production cycle after the guidelines, and my best source for information agrees that male on male is a way to get around the guidelines. There's also a vein of cultural homophobic assumptions feeding into this. So add that and doing with men what they could no longer get away with doing with women to the ways TT is deeply, deeply problematic. (Problematic feels like too neat and tidy a word, like something which could be solved with a few tweaks. But anyway.)
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Date: 2024-07-16 09:38 am (UTC)There is a history of rape in het romances in Thai lakorns. In 2016, guidelines around gendered violence were introduced to curtail that. I made a connection with TT as it aired in 2019, about a production cycle after the guidelines, and my best source for information agrees that male on male is a way to get around the guidelines.
There's also a vein of cultural homophobic assumptions feeding into this.
So add that and doing with men what they could no longer get away with doing with women to the ways TT is deeply, deeply problematic. (Problematic feels like too neat and tidy a word, like something which could be solved with a few tweaks. But anyway.)
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