“You’re not dirty”

lilly August 21, 2025 1:50 pm

You cannot have a story about religious abuse without having a tough conversation about purity culture.

Like if course the most resentful character experience sexual abuse… shocked but not shocking

It okay for you to wish the MC didn’t get raped- duhhh who would be for that? But the MC has been raised as tool since he was a kid and used in every single way by people who he trusted. Plus, his religious trauma made him devalue himself for it!

His trauma is apart of the narrative! Not every convo about SA is going yo look like a PSA- sometimes it’s tragedy in a manga unfortunately. I get being shocked/ I wasn’t expecting it to go there. I thought this was a fluff read too. But in this case- adding SA isn’t that crazy. It works in the story and does build out our MC and current antagonist backstory well.

I just think it’s very dangerous to start soap boxing about no SA in a story that implied it and also really framed the who leads right now.

Responses
    nosleep August 21, 2025 2:21 pm

    oh my god thank you you put it perfectly