I ignored the text, focusing on what Professor Evans was saying about The Scarlet Letter—specifically the way female desire was both demonized, and how women were equally infantilized and vilified when it came to sex…at least in the book. I knew something about that, didn’t I? I’d had no agency the other night, and I felt vilified for how much I wanted Mason. Although, who was vilifying me? Mason certainly wasn’t …In fact, he’d done the opposite: taking responsibility for what had happened the night he drugged me, demanding I not shame myself for wanting him or for what was happening between
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