Didn't I tell you jenny & rebecca weren't raped
You can relax now brother, the Lis are virgins, it was only valery & jade who got raped
I have 3 observations:
1: You know, this is the thing about work in progress content... if enough people get pissed off about a thing that later turns out to be not a thing, you'll never know if the story progression you see was the originally intended content that's just been ambiguously communicated earlier, or rewritten material to appease the complainers.
2: Note however that now this line of dialogue doesn't make any sense whatsoever that made it into the gold edition:
Jen: "There's no way we can just sit still after knowing what she's going through."
Jen: "Especially when we knew she's gone through something similar to what we all did."
What's similar to what?! It just doesn't make sense, because the only thing similar to sexual harassment would be a different type of sexual harassment, otherwise you're comparing apples to oranges....
Sometimes I wonder if it's even necessary to make 150k character updates for a VN, the dialogue just gets incredibly bloated and when a scriptwriter runs out of things to say through a character, some of the filler bits that don't serve any purpose than just to add more reading material without
any contribution to story progression or character depth, hurt cohesion and create a dissonant mess... you could cut a third of the script and it wouldn't make the storytelling one bit shallower just more to the point.
3: Besides all this, my former opinion about the promiscuity of former victims of sexual abuse still stands, so no matter how much you'd like to think that more text means more sophisticated story, the character behaviors don't make sense for anyone who knows anything about actual people who have been in the depicted situations, either through their study of them (psychology) or personal experience, so it's not accurately researched, sophisticated content, it's just a lot of text shoehorned into someone's ad-hoc opinion how the story should go, period.
A story writes itself through its characters, you can't just make up any story and make just any character fit into that story, good literature doesn't work like that! You need to pair the correct character motivations and behaviors with the correct character background/psyche eliciting those motivations and behaviors! I'm sorry to say it, but for anyone whose exposure to literature isn't limited to visual novels, this is just contrived, amateurish writing that's trying to disguise itself as something more than it is by the sheer amount of text!
