Ash🍉 answers “Does anyone else think elliot was raped?”

Frannie Cheska asked this question about Love and Other Words:

Does anyone else think elliot was raped?

Ash🍉 Thinking about this now, it seems impossible to imagine that it wasn’t rape. Eliot woke up to a sexual act being performed on him when he had given no…moreThinking about this now, it seems impossible to imagine that it wasn’t rape. Eliot woke up to a sexual act being performed on him when he had given no consent, that is rape. Eliot being so drunk that he thinks the girl is someone else, that is rape. If it had been the other way round and a man had done this to Macy and she was so drunk she believed it was her boyfriend, it definitely would’ve been addressed as rape. I’m upset that it wasn’t handled properly in the book, it would’ve been a good opening to bring up the topic of male rape and it’s honestly the only bad note I have on this whole book.(less)

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Frannie Cheska Absolutely! I felt the same way and frankly, I was very disappointing in CL and how this was handled. BUT I just started Beautiful Secret ... or one o ...more
Jun 08, 2020 01:34PM · flag

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