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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I agree with a lot of your points - but I’m afraid I completely disagree that Mitch raped Hannah.  He did not rape her, he had sex with her and she did not stop him.  That is not rape.  [/quote]

Rape is sex without consent. She did not consent. She didn't want to have sex with him. She did not go to his room with the intent of having sex with him and was surprised when he came onto her. She was also in a compromised emotional state.

If you don't want to use the word rape for it, okay I guess. I was raped by a male friend 20 years ago and I didn't call it rape for a long time because it didn't fit my mental definition of forcible rape. But that's what it is when someone has sex with you with out your consent. Eventually I just accepted that's what it was. But I get it can be hard to conceptualize when you've been told for years what rape looks like. I also get that it's hard to understand why a person in that situation might freeze up and make an instinctual decision to let it happen rather than fight (it's call the freeze response, as in fight, flight, or freeze). But the truth is that when a power imbalance is especially dramatic, freezing in place and "letting it happen" is a common trauma response, especially for someone who, like Hannah, has a history of childhood trauma.

It was rape.[/quote]

I completely disagree.  To use the word "rape" to describe an unpleasant sexual experience cheapens the word immeasurably.  We will have to agree to disagree.[/quote]

I don't agree to disagree, and I think you should think hard about your decision to describe it as "an unpleasant sexual experience." Just to recap what happened:

Hannah was coerced into having sex *by her boss* who also happened to be a famous millionaire, while clearly emotional distraught covering a mass shooting. Even if you don't want to call it rape, it is, at a minimum sexual harassment.

I do not understand why you are so determined to minimize it. This is a character who winds up overdosing because she is so traumatized by this event. Again, if you don't want to use the word rape, don't, but you don't get to hand wave it away because she wasn't held at gunpoint and she didn't behave the way you think a rape victim is supposed to behave.[/quote]

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