*TW & Spoiler Alert* AIBU To think that the reviewers of It’s a Sin, ep3, STILL don’t get what caused the shock twist?

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Watched episode 3 the other night, and then looked at some reviews today online. I was shocked to see that all the reviews I saw, referred to Colin “sleeping with” ( or variants thereof) his former landlady’s son, Rory...
From my perspective, and from the disgusting humiliation heaped on Colin by Rory, during their rape scenes, I was thinking that if this was now, and Colin was a woman (possibly not just only if Colin was a woman), it would definitely be a #MeToo# issue. FWIW I think Colin’s character came across as a quiet soul who was dreadfully ashamed at what had happened to him - hence his reluctance to engage in a tenuous relationship or one-night-stand, after he moved out of the LL’s house.
How did the reviewers miss this? Is it because they aren’t allowed to call it out if it’s Man-on-Man rape? Or do they really think that because Colin hadn’t fought back, it was totally consensual (and if that’s the case, do we, as a Society, have an even bigger problem at it’s core?)
N.B. I thought the acting was wonderful, and the stories in this series really brought back the attitudes and mores of that time - it needed to be told!

Anyone?

I didn’t see it like that. The sex was rough but I didn’t see it as non consensual

There's a thread, here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4142596-Its-a-Sin-9-pm-Channel-4-22nd-Jan-CONTAINS-SPOILERS-titled-edited-by-MNHQ?msgid=10386752

That’s not how I saw it, Colin was clearly a willing participant, confirming that they had the house to themselves every Thursday evening. He moved in to the pink palace to be part of the gay scene.

I didn't see it as rape.

Why on earth do you think it was rape?!

Rough sex can still be consensual.

The dodgy and creepy boss was horrible and a #metoo moment but the actual sex with the lodgers son were meant to show he wasn’t the shy boy from Wales people assumed he was.

*was not were

As many have said it didn’t seem like rape, just rough sex, here’s why I thought it was (and the reason for my Trigger Warning): when I was working in Finance in the City of London in the 1980’s, I had many male friends who were gay.
In the testosterone-fuelled world of that time, the traders were very “Alpha”, and some had a thinly-veiled disgust of some of my male gay friends. At one office “do” I overheard a few of these discussing how they hated gays, and how they would like to “f*ck them just to hurt them”.
One of my friends was subsequently attacked by one of these shining examples of alpha male entitlement. He confided in me that he hadn’t felt able to fight back, and it broke him. He left the Company soon after and we lost touch after about 5 years, when he moved abroad.
Since then, and again, through the #metoo# movement, it has become clearer that sometimes what could be argued is consensual, can sometimes be as a result of coercion.
That’s what I saw - maybe incorrectly - that Colin felt he couldn’t refuse, until he was brave enough to break free and move out.
Thanks all, for a different perspective - I guess my friend’s experiences just haunt me still...