Male rape victims have few resources available to help them, and they often avoid speaking out about what happened to them and seeking the few resources that do exist because they're afraid of being laughed at and seen as pathetic and weak. This unfortunately extends to sexual harassment too. Legally (to this day in many places) rape was defined as a man sexually assaulting a woman, excluding this by definition.Ĭompare with Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male and Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female. See also All Women Are Doms, All Men Are Subs. Related to Black Comedy Rape and Queer People Are Funny. In Challengers it is revealed in a side story that Tomoe's older brother, Souichi, had a Near-Rape Experience at the hands of one of his teachers, which caused him to become anti-gay.The Yaoi Genre anime Sukisho! plays an Attempted Rape in the first episode for comedy also, the one on bottom is said to have enjoyed it.Prison Rape often overlaps with this trope. Souichi's resulting homophobia is played up to ludicrous extremes clearly intended for laughs.
Souichi's later relationship with his kohai Morinaga in the Spin-Off series The Tyrant Falls in Love, most of the comedy resulting from Morinaga and Souichi not fitting the traditional BL "cold-hearted seme/cheerful uke" dynamic at all.The rape itself is treated as wrong, but its consequences are merely treated as funny. Early on in the plot of Sweet Polly Oliver historical drama Kaze Hikaru, a few male characters are shown being markedly attracted to the Bifauxnen protagonist.