@Claire, you're a math nerd and it's great. The paragraph has one of my favorite tropes in rape fantasy, which is that shocking, sinking feeling when she realizes that she will forever be a raped woman.Claire wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 5:08 am
Her virginity was not what felt different about her. Then she realized. She had been raped without even knowing when exactly it had happened. She just knew that it did. So when did that happen? When his cock’s head had entered her? When half of him had entered her? Or had it happened just now with all of his penis being inside her? If the latter was true, wouldn’t that imply that small penises rape their victims faster? When does sexual assault become rape? None of that made any sense to her. In math, categories were clearly defined and precisely distinguishable from one another. She liked that about math. But in the real world, categories like rape were blurry around the edges. That is why she had just been raped without her even noticing the exact moment when it happened. Then she realized what had changed. She couldn’t precisely say when it had happened but she could say with certainty that from this moment on forward she would never be not a rape victim.
And yet...
My reaction on reading this paragraph was something like this (North American readers over the age of 50 should imagine Sam Kinison shouting this part): It's a partition! You're talking about a partition. Say partition! Say it! Say it!
The fact that this partition was about parting her is neither here nor there. I wanted the mathematical language.
That is all.