TRIGGER WARNING!!! TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT!!!
There's a popular piece of media in which characters have superpowers and are good or evil, classic good guy/bad guy tropes. In this popular piece of media, there is a man with the power to turn invisible. As well as this, the main character is a do-good girl who only wants to help this man (and others) become a better person.
The girl gets hired by a large company that the guy works for, and their very first interaction is the guy using his invisibility powers to watch the girl get dressed into her work clothes. He then gets caught, becomes visible, and doesn't apologise for seeing her in any sort of state of undress, instead asking her if she had sex with another co-worker before even introducing himself.
Throughout this piece of media, the guy makes repeated sexual jokes and comments to and about, NOT ONLY the girl, but their co-workers as well. The entire time, he also tries to make it out that he's not a bad person and is just struggling to become good without ACTUALLY putting any effort in.
Imagine he suddenly starts to follow her around one day, until they both end up in the female's toilets whilst the girl is trying to fix her wounds up after a run-in with another hero. He tells her, unprovoked, about a sex dream that he had about her.
There is also a moment in this piece of media where he kisses her and, when pushed off, accepts it. HOWEVER, rather than apologising and leaving, he becomes invisible and kisses her again without any sort of consent. That would all be a massive problem, right? That guy would be sexually harassing the girl, right?
Okay, but now imagine it's actually the video game Dispatch. The guy is actually Invisigal, and the girl is actually Robert. Invisigal still (as far as I can remember) does all of these things and more, and despite how Robert reacts, she continues to. It's still fucked up that she acts this way, right? She still spends the entire game sexually harassing Robert and stepping WAY out of line, and not just in the sense that she refuses to listen to crucial orders from her dispatcher.
Dispatch fans hate to think of Invisigal as a bad person who's done any wrong because she's a quirky, 'I can't help it!! I don't mean to be evil :(((' girl, and they all have the unconscious mindset that sexual harassment doesn't count if it's to a male. It's incredibly disgusting, and it just shows that they are more than happy to pretend that people, in game and out of game, haven't done any wrong as long as they act like they regret it.
Visi IS a sexual harasser, and people really need to realise this. Thank you for coming to my angry rant :1
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