janeym27 wrote...
I agree that if it's in game it should be available as a point of discussion. I think the issue arises when people stop discussing it properly, and it degenerates into somewhat distasteful rape jokes and character flaming. (ususally one or 2 idiots who take it too far) Rape is a more sensitive issue than most, and so I guess it's easier for the jokes to get out of hand. I remember one thread got pretty nasty about rape victims (or so I felt) at one point, but reached like 8 pages before it was locked. It's hard to gage the mods in here sometimes.
I've seen threads get incredibly nasty and not get locked at all. I don't get it, either.
Jack talks about being raped on a number of occasions. Her escape from Cerberus ended with the crew of the shuttle she left on 'using' her. She was a child at the time. She also implies that the couple she roamed around with for a while used her as well. The psychological implications of that kind of physical abuse are far-reaching. It's possible that she got to a point where when it happened again, she had normalised it ot the point where she could only identify it after the fact. More likely, however, is the notion that she was not in control of her powers, or was already weakened or subdued. As an inmate, it's unlikly that they would let her wander about with her full biotic potential available to her. Also, she was in there with some of the worst scum of the universe.
As someone has already pointed out: complex issue, complex character.
Honestly, I feel like the writers kind of fumbled with Jack. They went with a lot of big issues (rape, murder, Cerberus testing, etc) for her, but she gets fewer conversations than much less damaged characters (or more funtional characters, depending on your definition of damaged. At any rate, I'd definitely say that Grunt and Mordin are a lot more psychologically stable than she is), and, like all romance characters, her character development is tied to her romance plot. The long and short of it is that her experiences come off as cheap or lazy writing (she got raped! And she killed some guys! Look how hardcore she is!) because you only ever see the first half of her story. Most people simply won't be able to access her character development, by virtue of not chosing her for a romance or simply being the wrong gender.
There's also the problem that, due to the way loyalty is set up, characters' issues are treated by the game as being more or less equivalent, so Jack's issues are weighted the same as Garrus's survivor's guilt. Not to cheapen Garrus's troubles, but they're really apples and oranges. And because of how quickly the game has to work through her issues (or not, in the case of not romancing her) in 2-3 conversations, she comes off as really unevenly written and all you ever get to deal with with her is implied implications, and that's no substitute for actual writing.
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