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Originally Posted by doctajones428
Are you kidding me? Had he raped her, she would of had even more power taken away and had even more mental trauma. Between going through everything that happened on the farm and performing the C section, she would of been completely broken.
I don't think there is anything more shattering than rape.
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Originally Posted by bcsoda
I really appreciate that they didn't take it any further, it wasn't totally necessary (though definitely would have solidified how evil the Governor is, so I guess it depends what they wanted to go for), but I have to say I disagree with you. I don't see how this could be worse than if he had raped her. They're both probably traumatizing, but actually having that power taken away from you sounds far more traumatizing than someone threatening to. In the end, she at least had the relief that it never happened, but if it had happened then she would have had a lot taken from her.
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To explain what I mean a bit more fully - by taking her clothes and threatening rape in the way he did, he makes her experience the terror and powerlessness of it. Had he gone thru with it, she could have separated that out and wouldn't have had to fear the reality of it happening.
What he's done instead is make her realize she's completely powerless to stop him in anything he wants to do & she knows he can hurt/rape her at any point he wants to. It's an unknown variable that she has to live with and worry over which makes it even worse imho.
This is just my opinion on what it would do to one's mental state & how I personally think the mental torture of it would be worse than a physical torture which you can heal from/separate yourself from. I don't mean to trivialize the physical act of rape at all, that would just compound the mental mindf##k he'd already laid down.