#and then narratively he's put into the same role anya was. a victim unable to speak out violated in a place that should be safe
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i think it’s very important that curly's an extremely flawed person who has misogynistic biases, but also, like, not an inherently terrible or ill meaning one. curly is the average man in a patriarchal system, basically- he benefits from the system and sees it as normal and as such perpetuates it. he genuinely wants to help anya and wasn’t trying to throw her to the wolves but his deeply ingrained ideas that his friend couldn’t do something so horrible (bc rape has to be this monstrous evil thing that’s only done by monsters who hurt everyone in their path, right?) and that anya must be in some way over-emotional and in need of calming down more than legit protection lead to him basically doing that. he isn’t trying to cause harm, but he's a reflection of the harmful system he comes from. even genuinely well meaning men participate in the patriarchy, and conversely, the patriarchy self-cannibalises to stay alive. it as a system ultimately did not save curly from abuse because it’s not designed to. the system needs abusive men, as much as it needs passive enforcers, and it doesn’t particularly care who those men brutalise if it keeps women down.
#sorry curly fascinates me with how he interacts with the themes of gender in this game like#he's the embodiment of like milquetoast guys who don’t hate women but subconciously see them as lesser#and then narratively he's put into the same role anya was. a victim unable to speak out violated in a place that should be safe#like the forced sedation is a very obvious parallel to jimmy assaulting anya#i just think that’s interesting. i have a headache can’t expand but like. i want to study him like a bug#mouthwashing#mouthwashing spoilers#misogyny tw#rape tw#abuse tw
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