Remember GeneralHospital when Luke rapes Laura & it ends in wedding (1981)?

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9. In high school I was reading novels by Catherine Cookson

There was one where a servant girl was raped by the son of the house. She gets pregnant and raises the child while rich brat son goes abroad. 20 years later, he returns. Then they allegedly fall in love. Maybe he could have grown up and changed in 20 years, but even so. She'd have the trauma in reality, still there after 20 years..

There's also a scene in Poldark like that though the writer in the book has the woman protesting only because it is wrong but underneath she really wants to do it. In the TV show, with no narration, it comes off as a rape.

That patriarchal idea it is supposed to be a compliment to women is one of the more egregious forms of gaslighting the patriarchy has tried to impose on us.

General Hospital is a soap opera and Luke was likely meant to be a temporary bad guy character. Then when people liked him, they tried to keep him and had a hard time walking back and redeeming him. There is a soap character Todd Manning who rapes someone and when they had to redeem him, they did a fairly good job, but did not try to have a love story between him and his victim.