A talk about rape in manga, cause some people just don't get it

I don't know why this is a hard concept for some people to grasp, but lets get it out in the air- rape is bad, and you suck if you romanticize it.

I left a comment under the most recent chapter of Legs That Won't Walk
TL;DR, people in the comments attempted to excuse the literal assault happening in the chapter.

I don't have a problem with people reading about depictions of rape. I'm not saying you're never allowed to read about taboos, just don't romanticize it. Publicly, at that. Somehow this pushed peoples buttons. Never did I ever think I'd hear people try to defend their right to romanticize rape and assault.

There's *still* someone arguing about it in the replies to that comment as I type this out. You can still like a story whilst acknowledging the shitty, sometimes illegal things a character does. You cannot just excuse what's happening or make excuses for a character for the sake of your enjoyment.

You can make the excuse that it's fiction, but its a fictional depiction of a *real like occurrence,* you can't just water it down to less than a horrible crime. And if you're gonna do that anyway, at least keep it to yourself.