Guiding Light - MESSAGE BOARDS

Olivia has enough to deal with cause of the date that ended badly BUT I have to wonderif also the writers can't show that she also had childhood issues of abadonment from her dad dying or something that more explains some of her current emotional states and crisis? Not saying that her dad abused her but that she has issues from being left behind. Cause she fights Reva since Reva ruined Richard, then Josh for Liv and so Liv can't take being left. And she can't take Reva taking all the 'good' men from her..

Olivia is the only one who really knows. It depends on how she perceived the incident. If she felt like she was violated or she was unconscious during the act then I would have to say yes she was raped. Did Olivia ever call it rape or did she call it a one night stand? Whatever it was Ava was conceived by a very young scared girl who was left to deal with the consequences alone.

My problem is with the writers, not Olivia in general.

Like I posted earlier, this is just another example of the writers using rape to instigate a romantic coupling. This is so wrong! When Olivia was furious with Jeffrey about a year ago, that is correct however they started showing this sexual tension growing between them which is where they screwed up. This sexual tension led to Jeffrey kissing Olivia and her kissing back.

I don't know which is worse in this situation, the writers who continually minimize the affects of rape or a female head writer who allowed it. It's degrading to all women to portray this crime like this and GL is not the only show to abuse this s/l.

If every guy got locked up for having sex with a chick they got drunk WITH then all the guys would be in jail. He didn't set her up, plot to have sex with her, none of that. He was drunk too, just as much as she was, he took her up to the bedroom and her @$$ was wide awake, giggling the whole way.

I don't think rape should ever be used on daytime tv. Soaps are for entertainment purposes. I thought soaps were marketed to women. Do women clamor for rape s/l's? I'd never rape any of my characters, even male prisoners by drunken, randy ex-wives.

Side note: Raping Brooke Logan on B&B was the absolute worst decision B&B made in its history. I hate rape stories. They all suck! It's far too heinous and insidious. But we can't unring a bell. REVA's knight in shining armor has a huge stain on REVA's blue dress.

nope, that's not how it was played out at all. He "knew" what he was doing? Where, and when did it ever in the s/l play out that he "knew" he was "taking advantage" of her or "raping" her?