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How do you think interviewers or people dance around the fact mickey was raped? It's a matter of fact. Do you think Mickey loves yev? I know lots of folks are "aww character development" cause he kissed/nuzzled him.

They do it all the time. For one thing, I have never once heard an interviewer or major tv critic, when either discussing that scene or asking noel or cam directly about it, refer to it as “rape”, which is what it is. Furthermore, a lot of them even use really strange wording to describe the situation which frames Ian as the only victim in the situation and erases what happened to Mickey. From the Buzzfeed article a few weeks ago: 

This is really harmful, because male rape victims and queer people who are correctively raped, have their experiences and trauma erased by people in real life all the time. Our culture, the media, the police, the courts, etc. Wording like the above both reflects and perpetuates these attitudes. Obviously you and I know that Mickey being a rape victim is a fact, but you’d be surprised at the number of comments I’ve seen where people experience genuine confusion when you say that Mickey was raped. They say, “He was? I don’t remember that? Did I miss an episode?”, only to find out they did in fact watch 3x06, but because our culture has decided that men cannot be raped, or because of attitudes about sexuality, completely missed the fact that he was raped. There are even people who insist that he was not raped, because he “didn’t fight back” or because he “got an erection” or because he tried to end the assault more quickly by “participating”.

As for the situation with Yev, I think it’s a little complicated. While I personally am ok with Mickey’s feelings about the baby changing over time, I really wish people would not view it as “character development”. There’s nothing wrong or lacking in someone’s character because they cannot love/bond with/have parental feelings for a child that they only have because they were raped. If Mickey never developed any positive feelings for Yev, that would not mean he’s a “bad father” or a bad person. That is a normal response to an extreme trauma.

Do I think it’s nice for Mickey, that he can now experience less pain in association with his child? Yes, absolutely. Anything that lessens Mickey’s pain, is a good thing. But he probably still has some mixed emotions about being a father, and that’s ok. I think people need to respect that, and destroy this idea that he was a “bad father” who’s now “stepping up”.