#the massage parlor burning down because of rape and not because of the inherent 'sin' of sex would be a fucking cool story point
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While I'm 6am textposting, I wish to talk a bit about The Warp Effect and consent, and some compelling subtextual storytelling I think we're getting that I haven't seen discussed yet. TW: rape!
It feels really significant to me that the first episode of a story which is so conscientious about its portrayal of sex and consent
1. Opened with a casual, never-commented-on rape*
2. Closed with a time warp event precipitated by yes, a magic camera, but narratively by Alex having gotten pushed AWAY from the fully consensual sex he was about to have, into drunken shenanigans he visibly has little conscious control over and a morning after where he's informed (in a humiliating, kind of sexually-tinged-hazing way) of sex he has no memory of.
*In case I'm not being clear, I mean Meow hopping onto Alex's dick after he told her he wanted to stop. Not some "sex work is rape" shit or something.
Like!!! Yes there is a story about religious trauma and purity culture being told here, but to me it also feels like whatever his mother intended with the purity ring, Alex's path to breaking his sex curse may require realizing he has to 'wait' to actually want and choose to have sex, instead of being thrust (violently, casually, drunkenly, time warpedly, or any other way) into it.
Which would be suuuuch a cool subversion of the sex comedy genre as a whole. Right now he's having pussy and dick literally thrown at him, and the tone is very jokey (ha ha you're a renowned vagina doctor now! have fun!), but he is still v much having to negotiate consent for himself and his partners!
We see it explicitly with Kat - he doesn't want to let her fuck him thinking he's this other version of himself she has a pre-existing relationship with - but I'm wondering if he'll realize it also applies to his relationship with Army, where even if the other Alex consented to Army smooching him whenever he wants, he's allowed to want the guy he still sees as his high school bully to quit being so handsy.
Anywayyyy I sometimes get nervous I'm reading too much into everything, but if the story is at all aware that Alex has learned to prioritize consent for his partners but so far, not so much for himself, there's a lot of rich narrative there to explore.
#and i mean EYE hope he decides he DOES want army to be handsy and kissy#but he gets to decide that for himself yk#rather than just inheriting other alex's consent!#same as he recognizes he hasn't inherited kat's consent when she thinks he's someone else#okay it's all very intriguingggggggggg#the warp effect#dear diary#tw rape#rape warn#oh like also#i am all about everything the story is doing w/ emphasizing it's women who are most impacted by these questions of consent#w/ jean to advocate loudly and bravely for us!!!#but w/ alex as the POV character#men are expected to be down for (het) sex at any time for any reason#and that is the underlying premise of like. sex comedy as a genre!!!#as well as the horrifying justification for why men 'can't' be raped by women#so it is p badass and important to subvert alla that#meow and alex both assumed what she did was nbd#the massage parlor burning down because of rape and not because of the inherent 'sin' of sex would be a fucking cool story point#fucking cool isn't even a strong enough word lol#no hell for queer poly kinky consenting sexy folks#but hellfire for rapists#in this story#ok i'll stop adding tags now
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