I think Sam's reaction is precisely what Amy is questioning with her story. She addresses that rather well, I think, with continued negativity from Sam against his own reaction. "No, this is not what I am feeling", etc. etc.
The one thing that has always highly disturbed me about Ash's episode there is the fact Sam doesn't feel like he's been raped. He should! He was. That he doesn't is a crime. It doesn't matter how he got onto the bed, he was drugged. He was non compos mentis.
No, Gene, Ray and Chris wouldn't give a toss. This was still an era where females getting raped was seen as Their Fault (in fact, it's still that era now), but Sam's utter disregard for it is creepy and I'm glad someone addressed that issue.
(Okay, granted, most of the time I ignore it too, and treat it as the boys did - which is with humour, but I think it's dangerous not to interrogate the attitudes in fiction on occasion.)
In these catch ups with yours - is it everything, or only fic that meets your select reading criteria? It seems odd to me that you would subject yourself to stories you know you won't like (but I know from previous comment experience that you have read Sam/Gene.)
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Date: 2007-12-19 08:34 pm (UTC)The one thing that has always highly disturbed me about Ash's episode there is the fact Sam doesn't feel like he's been raped. He should! He was. That he doesn't is a crime. It doesn't matter how he got onto the bed, he was drugged. He was non compos mentis.
No, Gene, Ray and Chris wouldn't give a toss. This was still an era where females getting raped was seen as Their Fault (in fact, it's still that era now), but Sam's utter disregard for it is creepy and I'm glad someone addressed that issue.
(Okay, granted, most of the time I ignore it too, and treat it as the boys did - which is with humour, but I think it's dangerous not to interrogate the attitudes in fiction on occasion.)
In these catch ups with yours - is it everything, or only fic that meets your select reading criteria? It seems odd to me that you would subject yourself to stories you know you won't like (but I know from previous comment experience that you have read Sam/Gene.)