Added to the Lexicon
Okay, it might be all I can say on this and it’s a positive note:
BB: I made that choice very deliberately. Don’t get me wrong – I do like to keep some things off camera or panel if that will serve a particular scene or story. But in this instance, moving this off panel would have alluded that something sexual was going on or something rapey was happening.
Rapey. It’s like truthiness, in a way. It almost sounds kind of funny, taking the edge of a horrible topic and making it sound kind of… cute. Rapey! Not rape-ish, rape-esque and rape-like or even ‘a serious violation of the character’. No, the scene’s just not rapey! I honestly like this new word that Bendis has added to my vocabulary. Thanks, sir.
