Re: ... wow, Devin. If you read this without reading her intervies, I don't see how you can get away with the impression that she's condoning what happens.
Because in both the visuals and the dialogue, it reminds of nothing so much as the now-infamous Luke-and-Laura rape scene in General Hospital, which was also meant to be seen as "sympathetic rape," with its gauzy soft-focus camera lenses and treacly background music. The art goes out of its way to sexualize Tarantula as she violates Dick - she's distilled into gentle smiles, soft curves and warmly glowing skin in the cold wet rain - and the script infantilizes him while she's doing it - if all you did was read the words, minus any images to go along with them, it would either come across as one lover comforting another, or even a mother soothing a distressed child. Both the words and the pictures do everything that they possibly can to make Tarantula seem like an appealing island of life and nurturing, in a surrounding cityscape of dark, faceless, hard angles of steel and brick. THIS IS NOT BY ACCIDENT.
As in so many other media-glamorized portrayals of rape, it's Rape As A Music Video Visual, designed to entice and titilate and elicit sympathy for the rapist.