ABSTRACT

Increasing cultural attention to sexual assault in the U.S. has raised questions about consent, leading some states to implement “yes means yes” laws. In order to provide insight into how mainstream discourse take into account feminist understandings of sexual violence and affirmative consent, this article considers representations of rape culture and affirmative consent in two recent teen television programs, 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020) and Sweet/Vicious (2016–2017). Both shows reference sexual assault in nearly every episode, constructing a world in which rape culture is rampant. In portraying rape as lack of consent, as opposed to outright refusal or resistance, the shows do the important work of emphasizing why affirmative consent is essential. While progressively suggesting that rape culture necessitates affirmative consent, 13 Reasons Why and Sweet/Vicious simultaneously contribute to rape culture by relying on the long-standing trope that, when it comes to girls and sexual assault, “no” may mean “yes.”

摘要

在美国，人们越来越多地关注性侵犯，这引起了人们对同意的质疑，导致一些州实施“是意味着是”的法律。为了深入了解主流话语如何考虑女权主义对性暴力和肯定同意的理解，本文考虑了最近两个青少年电视节目《13个理由》（2017-2020年）和《甜蜜/恶毒》中关于强奸文化和肯定同意的表述。（2016–2017）。两者都几乎在每个情节中都提到了性侵犯，构成了一个强奸文化猖ramp的世界。在将强奸描述为缺乏同意，而不是完全拒绝或抵抗时，表演做了重要的工作，强调了肯定同意的必要性。尽管逐渐暗示强奸文化需要获得肯定的同意，但13和Why / Sweet / Vicious同时依靠长期存在的论点对强奸文化做出贡献的理由是，当涉及到女孩和性侵犯时，“否”可能意味着“是”。