Honestly, even though it’s nice they got back to the commentary of the entertainment business story, the way it’s carried is boring.
It ends up like a panel of host/source/commentator watching a news in recording and then starts to gives their on-your-face commentary on an issue. Rather than being more immersive, show the experience, and more quietly let the readers think about it.
It’s the same thing happening with Kana’s casting couch arc.
I didn't force them to have sex with me, they did it voluntarily - ah, my favorite excuse for abuse. You know, if you didn’t force your partner through violence, then it doesn’t count.
Human evolves slowly after all.
For long time, we’re familiar with people abusing other using power and violence.
People get smarter. When society catch up and makes it easier to gang up against the abusers who use “violence”, they find smarter way to do it, such as softer way of coercion. Meanwhile, the society is still mostly stuck with how to handle the brutes.
So far, the most they could work with that kind of thing is if they assign roles of “weak and vulnerable” such as towards children. But that’s already letting emotion runs ahead because there’s preconception.
They only know how to punish people who force people with beating, but still not so much for punishing people who do it with guilt, or rewards.
Or if we look another place, such as office, and don’t include the overly sensitive sexual abuse issues. If a manager use favouritism and deny an employee’s promotion with excuse of saying an employee “didn’t perform”, and the problem is there even if orchestrated, the society would have difficulties to proof the decision came from favouritism.
Is this chapter meant to make us feel sorry for her? Because the only thing it achieved was reinforce my stance that pedos should simply get the rope, no exceptions.
I think, it shows just blaming Airi doesn’t fix the fundamental problem, which runs deep.
If you’re satisfied with punishing the “abuser”, don’t forget there are still many going in the background, and just punishing individuals as they’re caught won’t stop it.
