The Walking Dead: Thank You for Not Being A POS

Editor’s Note: For this recap we want to place a strong trigger warning in advance for sexual assault. The original title for this recap was: “Thank You For Not Raping” which we obviously changed. This episode deals with not one but two characters that are problematic in several ways but especially when it comes to consent and dealing with women, period. While we don’t ever want to shy away from rape culture and dismantling it we want to make sure we can give you a heads up when we start critiques of the media we consume which may include it. Let me set the scene for you: it’s Sunday night and I tuned into The Walking Dead fashionably 7 1/2 minutes late as I am wont to do. I open up Twitter on both my phone and laptop because that’s how I get down. I sit down, ready to eat some sushi– yes I said sushi because if you watching zombies you should be eating raw flesh in celebration. And then it happens: the first tweet I see is someone saying that Negan must be a decent guy because he’s anti-rape. [record scratch and in distance a murder of crows is shocked into flight] Mind you I’m 7 1/2 minutes behind so I don’t exactly know what this means so of course I eat my sushi and I watch the show and then we get to The Scene. In The Scene, Sasha is not dead even though she went into the saviors compound by her gotdamn self last week instead she is in a self tied up and a savior call David is in the cell with her, checking on her. My mood while watching this scene and knowing there w…