Senpai, Jitaku Keibiin no Koyou wa Ikaga desu ka? - Vol. 3 Ch. 11

[dcdfvr]

Ok, this was weird. And I don't even mean all the stuff with the garbage pile dad. I mean why were there multiple instances of "let alone her virginity" as if that's the most important/pertinent thing about her goddamn sister being missing?

Yea that was stupid. That line shouldnt even be there at all if they actually cared for her and didnt just see her as a tool to have children

 

[Callidus]

People are coping. The virginity line is unnecessary. If either one had mentioned or even inferred to rape prior, the line could have some sense, but without that mention the line comes out of nowhere and makes no sense for her to say. This feels like something that's important to the author, which is why it's here.

 

[cryum]

was it really multiple times? I only parsed it twice, and the second one is just an echo of the first.

It's not really about virginity, or even being raped once. It's about living for 5 months without an income, and what she would possibly have to have done.

 

[CURIMA]

Everyone is coping about the virginity whatever. I mean, is clearly about the author views of No virgin=Worthless that he also dotes his MC with.

 

[NutzYaboku77]

Ok, this was weird. And I don't even mean all the stuff with the garbage pile dad. I mean why were there multiple instances of "let alone her virginity" as if that's the most important/pertinent thing about her goddamn sister being missing?

I was asking the exact same thing 🤣. Maybe they were worried about her ending up as a prostitute? Idk.

 

[YamiryuuZero]

Ok, this was weird. And I don't even mean all the stuff with the garbage pile dad. I mean why were there multiple instances of "let alone her virginity" as if that's the most important/pertinent thing about her goddamn sister being missing?

The insinuation here is that she could have been raped in the streets, kidnapped or even fallen into prostitution. Or worse, she could have had a terrible death were she got raped and then killed.

However, what really bothered me in this chapter was how they kept talking all the time about the heroine’s “virginity.” I agree that it may have been an indirect way of saying they were worried that she might have been raped, but I thought this way of addressing it was very poorly done. And to make things worse, in a tense moment of the discussion, why keep showing drawings of the heroine’s sister naked during the conversation? It felt unnecessary to me.

Showing a person naked in that kind of situation is like showing their vulnerable state. Note that she's covering herself up and refusing to look forward with shadows on her eyes in that scene, and her eyes in the background keep shifting right to left as if she's trying to find an escape route. Her father saw right through her, now she's fully exposed, weak and afraid.

It's similar to how magical girl transformations tend to make the girls naked before dressing them up, they're in a vulnerable state before being powered up by putting on the battle dresses. Nudity is used as a metaphor for purity and vulnerability, it's not meant to be sexual.

And yes, the way she mentioned her virginity is awkward here, but I think this is actually well done writing. She's trying to get the sister to realize that horrible things could be happening to her younger sister right now and she came up with two of the worst case scenarios, but she did awkwardly in a single sentence because she also doesn't know how to make the wording better in that situation.

 

[Darkshade13]

Yea that was stupid. That line shouldnt even be there at all if they actually cared for her and didnt just see her as a tool to have children

That line would've made sense for the dad (if he expressed any desire to have her come back), not the sister.

 

[NekoScan]

I basically never post, but I had to pipe in to say how much it bothers me that so many of the other posters here just aren't understanding important parts of this chapter, even going so far as to call it bad writing when in actuality it's very good writing. I'm not gonna try and teach what exactly people are missing because there's too many people missing a lot of different aspects, as well as exposition being one of my weaker points, but I encourage folks to think about other cultures and how they might have different views and values than your own as they read this. Shoutouts to Dealka for actually getting a lot of it though (or maybe all of it but they only talked about one of the big pain points that are being seemingly missed by most). Also, thanks for the TL!

 

[FleshPhoenix]

loads of people here massively lack reading comprehension.
the virginity thing, if you think about it for 10 seconds, is about if she's been raped, had to turn to prostitution as a minor, or has been spreading her legs for random men just for a place to stay.
if she'd lost her virginity, then she'd have lost her innocence.

the sister is a dumbass too. the absolute moron is choosing to stick with her university and daddy's bank account, rather than go for the most useful resource in finding her sister. if she wanted to really deal a hit to her father, she'd report to the police and the media that he kept silent when his underage daughter has been missing for half a year. destroy his reputation and find your sister, or keep living off his money while god knows what is happening to the girl.