I would like to think that's a likely possibility, but AtS implies that it takes a lot to get a vampire drunk, and they never showed Spike seeming even a little drunk at the party. :/ I don't think it would be in-character for Spike to take advantage of Buffy while she was drunk, but I can see Joss doing it anyway; he has few compunctions about skewing characterization when it gets in the way of his plot.
that would turn me off for the season quicker than anything else.
Ditto. I could barely deal with it if it were a different guy who had raped her. I don't think I'd even try if they had Spike rape her.
why force Buffy into the role of victim when she couldn’t fight back
I don't think the implication is that she couldn't fight back but that she wouldn't. I.e., drunk!Buffy might not have objected to the sex, but it would still be statutory rape because she would be too intoxicated to give consent.
So I don't think rape is even going to come up because I don't think we are suppose to see it as such.
See, I think it needs to be brought up, because if Buffy really doesn't remember who she slept with, then she could have been raped. It's possible that she wasn't- that she had sex while sober and blacked out afterward or that the father was also too drunk to give consent- but it's equally possible that it was rape, and the fact that the writers won't even acknowledge the possibility is really poor writing and makes it seem like they're sugarcoating the situation. Most women would probably be worried about having been taken advantage of, and the writers ignoring that facet of the situation plays into rape culture in a horrible way.
So even if it turns out to not have been rape (which is obviously what I hope), I'm still disappointed in the writers for not acknowledging the possibility when it's something real women would worry about.
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I would like to think that's a likely possibility, but AtS implies that it takes a lot to get a vampire drunk, and they never showed Spike seeming even a little drunk at the party. :/ I don't think it would be in-character for Spike to take advantage of Buffy while she was drunk, but I can see Joss doing it anyway; he has few compunctions about skewing characterization when it gets in the way of his plot.
that would turn me off for the season quicker than anything else.
Ditto. I could barely deal with it if it were a different guy who had raped her. I don't think I'd even try if they had Spike rape her.
why force Buffy into the role of victim when she couldn’t fight back
I don't think the implication is that she couldn't fight back but that she wouldn't. I.e., drunk!Buffy might not have objected to the sex, but it would still be statutory rape because she would be too intoxicated to give consent.
So I don't think rape is even going to come up because I don't think we are suppose to see it as such.
See, I think it needs to be brought up, because if Buffy really doesn't remember who she slept with, then she could have been raped. It's possible that she wasn't- that she had sex while sober and blacked out afterward or that the father was also too drunk to give consent- but it's equally possible that it was rape, and the fact that the writers won't even acknowledge the possibility is really poor writing and makes it seem like they're sugarcoating the situation. Most women would probably be worried about having been taken advantage of, and the writers ignoring that facet of the situation plays into rape culture in a horrible way.
So even if it turns out to not have been rape (which is obviously what I hope), I'm still disappointed in the writers for not acknowledging the possibility when it's something real women would worry about.