The Entertainment Value of Rape I woke up to a weird question on the radio this morning. "Is rape too serious to be entertaining?" Huh. Id fucking well hope so. Apparently, the context was the episode of a soap opera, where a character got raped, the whole thing aired at 8pm and the whole thing was a bit more graphic than what you usually see in a family program at that hour. And now that I think about it, soap operas in the UK can be pretty dark. I dont really care much for soap operas, but Claire has made me watch Coronation Street for about four years now. Last nights upsetting rape episode was on a different show, but during my four years of watching Coronation Street, one character got raped, as well. Twice. The rapist later got murdered by his own mother. Another girl had her skull crushed with a lead pipe just a few weeks ago. Before that, a lady had been trapped in a basement, which had then been set on fire by her captor. A firefighter died trying to rescue her and b...