Last nights Love/Hate season five finale included a graphic scene of prison rape.
In it, Fran was assaulted in the Mountjoy showers, held down, and anally raped.
There was a strong response to the scene with many viewers left shocked.
However, there were also a lot of jokes about it, some of which were widely shared on social media.
Some of the discussion on Twitter last night centred around the very different response evoked by Fran’s rape last night, and the rape of Siobhán in the opening episode of season three.
Cliona Saidlear from the Rape Crisis Network says no matter what the context or circumstances, to make light of sex assault and rape is to feed into a culture of sexual assault denial which silences victims and helps perpetrators get away with it.
For more on the discussion, listen back here:
