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Yeah, I do agree with you there. At first I was skeptical as for sure, he went through hell and back and I thought it went to the extent of r@ped. But then these chapters kinda lean to the aspect that he wasn’t raped but more so stripped and humiliated. I even saw a comment somewhere here, explaining that it’s a common extreme tactic used by bullies in east Asia to strip them and take photos, which is a mind-fucked. I even saw a kdrama recently and they did a very similar scene too and what was worse, it was in a public classroom… I also think we might get the nitty-gritty details when Yeonwoo talks about it to Haesol, or we might see a time-jump of it.
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Where tho? Cuz I read that those chapters a couple of times due to lack of update and nothing like that appears. Granted, every rape victim reacts differently but for males to physically walk away after getting raped and have absolutely no one question the way they walk for days is not likely. Especially if his parents "saw" him leave to school the next days.
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I think he wasn’t raped because in most media when severe bullying happens it’s usually some form of stripping and humiliating, not rape. Even though rape is about power and not being gay it’s just hardly ever man on man rape outside of BL or Prison context. Eg in the book geography class the bullies strip and dress a loner guy in women’s underwear and put makeup him before making him walk in front of everyone. Or in criminal minds the two times bullying was mentioned involved stripping, for one guy they stripped him and told him to masturbate while secretly filming him. They then uploaded and spread the video around. Then another guy is stripped and tied to a goal post and they call his crush over to laugh at him. I think there’s something similar to this in animal farm and other media too but I can’t name the specific titles. The only time I see male on male rape is in prison stories and in BL. I’m not saying what is or isn’t SA. But it’s important to distinguish from SA and rape because the affects of those are very different.
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The effects of them are not very different, they're very similar considering what happened to Yeonwoo even if it wasn't penetrative rape. And rape with male perpetrators and victims happens a lot outside of bl(fiction) and prison, although i do see why you categorised them like that. Rape is about power, not necessarily sexual attraction, so it would happen a lot more as a way of bullying someone than you'd think, there's also cases of rape in a relationship, just deranged randos, family members, paedophilia etc.
You can't compare this to other stories because it's already quite different from the premise, which is why I like it. You also don't know if the author was influenced by these media sources you're talking about. And again, regardless of whether he was penetrated or not, what they did do to him was horrific and was definitely Sexual Assault, they violated him, demeaned him and it's disgusting.
I came to the realization that some of you think yeonwoo was raped but I don't think that was the case.... dressed as a girl and then stripped, yes, but raped? No.