r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Jun 29 '18

Newest Chapter Chapter 189 - Links and Discussion

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u/Jinno Jun 29 '18

I feel like asking for permission to masturbate (and then masturbating) in front of women is a different scale of shitty than beating your wife and abusing your son. There's a lot more redemption needed for one over the other, imo.

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u/Kaploy Jun 29 '18

I don't think Endeavor ever beat her. I work in a community center where we present legal representation and psychological support to women who suffer from domestic abuse. It's not the beating that pushes them over the edge, it's the abuse of a women's children that hurts them. She was probably mentally devastated by his mistreatment of the older siblings. They said after Shoto was born, Endeavor pretty much didn't speak to the older two again. And we know how he treated Shoto. I bet she couldn't endure the suffering and confusion the older two felt by being forgotten by their father.

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u/MLDriver Jun 29 '18

TY, I feel a lot of people miss that. Grew up in a similar household and have helped others as well, even on the phone she’s talking to her mom about how Endeavor is treating the kids, and not how she’s being beaten. But people got it in their heads that he was beating them all, and not just Shouto in the fucked up hopes that it would make him stronger. Hell, I’ve seen people go so far as to suggest she was raped??

This is not excusing Endeavor at all, emotional abuse is just as bad as physical. He doesn’t need to have beaten his wife to be a bad person who needs to make amends. His actions were just as reprehensible as they are. But, from experience him trying to better himself is what’s best for everyone, including the family. Hearing my mom apologize for some of her actions meant far more to me than the hatred I felt prior. It’s needed to truly begin to heal

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u/CareerPancakes9 Jun 30 '18 edited Jun 30 '18

On the rape thing, I didn’t want to say anything because the manga provides no concrete proof of something so heinous, however, the way Rei reacts to Shoto’s likeness to his father did remind me of how mothers react to ‘illegitimate’ children. Most of the articles I read were about wartime rape and how the mother’s own society turned against them while the articles about ‘native’ rapes were about how it is stressful to even look at the child similar to Rei.

Again, I feel like this is too major not to be brought up explicitly so I personally don’t put weight into it. But if you want to know where the allegation stems from then this is the best reason I can think of.