They ascend in urgency because her trauma increased in urgency up to the moment of her suicide (which is more dramatic than realistic)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
Maybe a rock & a hard place here too though: I took it as "this has to *damn* rape culture" that Clay and Porter bridge are placed so high.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
I feel like the problem is this one story tries to do so much. It's about suicide and bullying and rape culture and feminism
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And bills itself as being literally about The Reasons Why suicide occurs even though there's no such thing really
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Bryce is part of the problem here -- he exists bc in a show about rape culture you don't want to let rapists off the hook
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There are straight up unrepentant rapists out there and to paint him in shades of gray would do the subject a disservice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
Aye. Ultimately, it worked for me (bigtime) but I was also... acutely aware mine was a man's reaction to a man's storification of subject.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect
I was very compelled by the show despite my issues, but I am also not an impressionable teen. Adult depression is different
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Replying to @catvalente @Hal_Duncan
Adult me greeted the show's supposedly inspirational ending with bleak melancholy, teen me would've felt it as sheer despair
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"We need to be kinder to each other" but the level of kindness the show ultimately seems to demand is that of a boddhisattva
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That clearly isn't the answer because unkindness is inevitable, it's part of being human, and we need to survive our own and others'
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And it gestures toward that but doesn't quite get there. Clay doesn't reconcile with any of his fellow recipients
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He goes off in the sunset with three other "blameless" characters, Tony and his boyfriend and Skye
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