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I think there’s a lot to talk about re: how Jaekyung goes about having sex with people and his attitudes around it and what broader implications they have about his character and his values and how he thinks about other people and relationships and what it might say about the type of environment he grew up in or the spaces he’s occupied and all that, genuinely. I think these are all much more interesting questions than whether or not what he does to Dan, at least at first, is rape—in part because that question in and of itself is such a non-question to me. But it’s like how can we even get there if we can’t even get past what is essentially square zero. Sheesh. How are we meant to ask what [x] means or what [x] says about a character if we don’t even know what [x] is.