She is 15-16 years old max. How tf is she supposed to know what a toxic relationship is? She never had been in a relationship before. These 2 (and other comments somewhat) are literally the definition of victim blaming.
Spoiler alert: her brain isn’t fully developed. Yes her friends tried to warn her but be honest with us, we didn’t ALWAYS listen to everything our friends said. Notice how she finally realized it after the teacher said it. Yeah that means something if you think about the pages before it.
”don’t go out at night” kinda logic how about “don’t fucking rape“ instead.
I believe it was heavily implied that it ended with her first period, so she should be even younger (thought, it's a drawing, so no real age), and so are her friends, but her friends wouldn't be in that situation.
She spent three months with a guy she doesn't like doing his every whim, a normal guy would misunderstand, let alone an evil one.
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The logic of "don't go out at night
alone" exists for decades, and it's in recognition of evil existing in the world. It's a protection measure by normal people against bad people. A recognition of reality, including the differences between men and women's physicality.
The whole "don't rape" thing is cool and all but it doesn't work in reality, it's like telling criminals to not do crime, they don't care to hear you. The people who pay attention to you already don't do it.
This ends up applying to a lot of things, but at the end of the day, it ends up hurting more the people who hear it than the people who don't. In this case, women lose their sense of self preservation, and men start caring less about someone they see as "throwing themselves into an abyss despite all the warnings".
What actually helps is having less reckless people and harsher punishments, something society somehow has moved away from.
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Cautionary tales help, but this one hits wrong for me, it teaches girls to be cautionary of all men (by virtue of having the girl go from being bullied to being in a toxic relationship - ignoring the fact she had three months to realize and jump off), while portraying evil as if it's overt. When in reality you would not really know a piece of shit is a piece of shit until you pay attention or it's too late. In fact, the people that like to portray themselves as paragons of virtue, being too perfect, often should be ones you get more cautious of.
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Sorry about the long response. TL;DR: The friends wouldn't be in her position, she lacked self-preservation, and evil people don't really care about your feelings on their morality. This is all my opinion, and you are free to disagree with me.
... I hope I don't get misunderstood with wild accusations again