This episode is about something. I have no idea what it is.

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 8x19 - "Pay It Forward". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

This, so much. They didn't have to do that. And false reports of rape are such a tiny fraction of the number of rapes that given the news lately it pisses me off that they went there.

And the thing is, considering what we get of the the actual story, it feels pretty coercive anyway, particularly given when it happened. I'd have to know more, but I'd probably suspect that it really was rape anyway.

[annievh.livejournal.com]

I am going to rant a bit now people, and this opinion may be a bit "unpopular", so sorry if I offend anyone.

Thinking back eight seasons of this show, I think this was the very first time a false rape accusation was used in a plot. And even so, the woman who made the accusation was afraid of retaliation by her apparently abusive father. So even her false accusation was the product of female hate and sexual oppression - since her father probably thought having consesual sex made her daughter unworthy and it was better to be raped than consent to sex.

But that was my take on the plot.