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My favorite part is how Devin Grayson flat-out called it rape - or, actually, I think it was something weird like "no, it definitely wasn't consensual but I wouldn't call it rape" or something bizarre like that - and like, nobody cares. She's an important piece of the Batfamily battle during War Games right after. Dick never comments on it.

And just to make it all that much muddier, Gail Simone's currently using her as a significant character in Secret Six, and this was her comment on what happened on the roof:

As for the 'rape' scene, I have some feelings about that. I don't think Nightwing could be completely forced even under the weird circumstances. I think that makes him a participant, even if he is somewhat diminished--but 'diminished' for Nightwing is different than getting a co-ed drunk at a party. I still don't think he'd be involved if he didn't want to be on some level. He might've felt it was a huge mistake ten seconds later, but he'd hardly be the first person male or female to feel that way. I'm not avoiding it because it's 'dangerous,' or anything. It just hasn't come up yet.

Which... actually makes me much *more* inclined to consider it rape than I did before.