Calling the “SEVERANCE Triangle” of what it was: sexual assault

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Sexual liberation is here! to cut It was never a particularly exciting offer – Lumon Industries is not very favorable to seduction, and what about fluorescent and monitoring lamps everywhere. But as of “Attila” this week, the broken floor was baptized. For Hili R. As already Mark S.

Of course, Mark’s experience in that tent with Helena Aegean became very complicated at the end of “Woe’s Hollow” when he learned retroactively that the woman who was sleeping with her was not in fact the same woman who developed her in the first season. Perhaps the “ship” was the same, for sure, but it belonged to a completely different woman, another awareness of the extremely physical and emotional intimacy that he was sharing with another person. The characters of Healy and Hylena are not only different; Innies is distinctive identities, like all other severed employees, regardless of the number of similarities that they may share with their immersion.

This type of scenario, although it is clear that it is not present in real life, fits the criteria of rape by deception. It may seem that “deception of the victim in a sexual act” is somewhat mysterious, and indeed, the term is improperly applied in the law of rape. But it is a useful umbrella for the forms of assault that people do not always think, including “theft”, or removing a condom during sex without approval. In rare cases, this lying about the identity of the individual may mean – not only pretending to be rich to persuade an appointment but in reality a person who has sex with someone are not. The classic example will be a man who impersonates a identical figure with his wife or, as is the case with a notorious Revenge from the obsessive The scene, steals the Jock mask during a costume and sleep party with his girlfriend.

The cup contains many examples of imagination – extends to the legend of Arthur with Merlin, which gives up Anthron Bindagon in the role of Gorois in order to rape Ergrin and the king of the king once and future – especially in science fiction and imagination, and the types in which identities can be fun. Through technology or magic. Humans are fascinated by Dopelgängers, and thus multiply everywhere in qualitative imagination, often in the context of terror. The idea of ​​replacing it with an identical version of the self, then forcing it to watch the deception succeed without the ability to warn friends and family, is a kind of logic of the nightmare on the basic concerns of losing control and physical independence.

The first case of sexual assault on Dopelgängr marginThe alternative version of Olivia, nicknamed “Fauxlivia”, slides smoothly to the life of the protagonist immediately after a relationship with Peter officially started. But cases emerge everywhere as soon as you start thinking about it. Faith has sex with a friend of Buffy Riley during the body’s swap. Barry Allen spends nearly half of the season of Flash Unmarriedly married to a copy of Iris of the mirror, and this means that their sexual lives do no Go. In the last season of BoysChevter in an immediate form in order to take her place-and not only suggest that she marry her boyfriend, but it seems that having sex with him more than dozens of times. A similar attack plays in once upon a timefor pretty little liarsAnd Shield agentsFor example, but not limited to.

There is nothing wrong with its nature in photographing this type of sexual assault, especially because rape by deception is not usually annoying in terms of being to see it at the present time as something like the scenes of rape in 13 reasons. (Woe’s Hollow did not require a warning from the trigger at the beginning of the episode, to anyone. rape or Transgress. It is also not a coincidence that almost every modern example I can think of it includes a female Dopelgänger and a male victim; The script book may believe that the deception will look more clear if the sexes are replaced, as is the case in Revenge from the obsessive. Sex crimes against men are still seriously less than crimes against women, and the media still reflects this.

In most of the scenarios of assault on Dopelgängr, regular female characters are concentrated as victims in the wake of this, as the drama mainly derives from their anger in the assumed betrayal because their partners do not realize to deceive Dopelgängr. Therefore, the man is left to relieve his partner’s feelings about what happened, assuring her that she was intending to sleep with him instead of seduction of the fraud. Instead of being able to involve what happened to him as a shock, the male victim is placed in a position Apology For something he never chose his experience.

Line of the moon’s story in Boys It provides a particularly terrible example of this when Annie immediately attacks Hugh after learning what happened. Even after she reminds her that he believed that the woman was, Annie, back back, “Yes, and as long as you put, she did not seem very close. This is Annie you want: below to drop whenever. The ideal girl-not a person who suffers from depression or March Sex or comes with any complications. “The story line is primarily a way to explore the insecurity Towards his infiltrators with Dopelgängr instead of treating his reaction to the revelation. But it is not a real surprise that the bidder Eric Carbek will not recognize the shock of Hugh; Just one week before Doppelgängr appeared, contact the attack on Hoghie’s Sex-Dungeon at the hands of Tek Knight “cheerful“

Let’s stop here to admit that many of the examples that he called so far have occurred in well -executed stories; Perhaps the third season marginBetter, Fauxlivia is a large part of it, including Peter’s disorganized feelings with both women in the episodes after the truth comes out. I even gave four stars for that Boys Conclusion in my summary despite my problems with the repercussions of Dopelgängr. and to cut It is still far from the worst in this regard: “Attila” is still a very good loop everywhere, including the signs subclip.

But the show is still suffering from the same sense of priorities in its place, as Healy’s response to plagiarism remains a personality without leaving the work through his pain in the same way. (In the “Trojan Horse” last week, he did not know at first whether he would be rushed into the real Holly, but he moved mainly during the day.) He does not deserve her point of view; It is very comfortable to see her moving through jealousy and eventually takes an agency on her body, restore her sexual life and sleep with Mark for the real. She has the right to feel deeply crawling by Helen, “take it off in the morning as if she was a child.” But she is not the only victim here, even if she is right to be annoyed that her body has been used against her will. At a level, this happens with all INITIE: Outie-Dylan (Zach Cherry) sleeps with his wife all the time, and the display does not frame Innie as a victim.

Of course, all meetings are routinely stripped, forcing them to work indefinitely while their waste is heading and theoretically enjoyed the freedom of the outside world. This is an essential idea for showing. In the first season, Helena records a video of Hili that she tells specifically that she is not a person, and Miss Huang (Sarah Book) is used with Milchick (Tramell Tillman) in “Trojan Horse”. In the last episode, Helena refers to Anz as “ridiculous animals”, and it is assumed that after one day after sexual assault on one of them. Helna kidnaps the body of Healy and the attack on Mark S. The Master of slaves resemble slaves; Even without deception, there is already integrated exploitation.

This scenario raises all kinds of rich questions about the dynamics of INI-Outie and can provide great wrinkles as Mark completes its reintegration and reveals more repressive memories. But science fiction and imagination are often sensitive to recognition of sexual assault, and to address potential thorny repercussions as a distraction from the most important concerns associated with conspiracy. It is a shame because, even to put aside the importance of highlighting the sexual victims of male in a rare media scene, there is a real possibility to comment on the nature of shock and abuse by obtaining what Mark feels about all this.

“Was it different with me?” Hili Mark asks in the hallway after they did. It is a fair question: Again in “Woe’s Hollow”, Mark believes He is Sleeping with the real helly, just as it is believed to be joking with it in the first few episodes of the season. It is logical that sex with Helen may have felt the same amount of sex with Healy at the present time and that the tent’s memory has become twisted and spoils only after the truth, when he learned the truth. But this is just speculation; We don’t really know that Mark only smiles and accepts Helly on the wall rather than responding. assume to cut He was always better in asking questions than answering.