Originally posted by: .amigos.
Can we stop mocking the word rape? It is a word that carries a lot of gravity and tossing it around for brownie points is so wrong.
Anurag didn't rape Prerna. What happened involved mutual and active consent. And in no point in time did he tell her to sleep with him because he was going to marry her. It just happened and both sides are equally responsible, or culpable, whichever way you see it.
And I agree @TM. While Prerna isn't bound through law or a relationship to include Anurag in her decisions, she had a moral obligation to call things off with him before she stepped up to marry Bajaj. She was in a committed relationship and that made her accountable.
That doesn't mean she wasn't free to marry Bajaj. That decision, the decision of whom she chooses to marry, belongs solely to her. And that is what Bajaj commented on, too. She can choose to marry who she wants. That's her prerogative. Anurag has zero say in it. And since Anurag doesn't know about the child, and it was his dream, him saying her marriage is a mutual decision for them to take is just wrong.
Rape and blackmail leave life altering impressions on people. It shouldn’t be trivialized.
What transpired between AnuPre in the hut was consensual. He’s labeled a rapist but actual blackmail by RB swept under the rug. Hero or villain being honest about their behavior in a fictional situation is better than bias in favor of a character.
It wasn’t like AnuPre were just contemplating marriage when Pre decided to trade grooms. The activities had started and it was the eve of their wedding. After all that they have been through Anu deserved to know she wasn’t going through with it with him. Any reason would have been better than to run away like a coward and leave Anu, and Sharmas dealing with the shocking turn of events. Neither of them deserved this.
Pre has created more trouble for Sharmas and they are left reeling from it every time. Hope now that she’s made her choice she will let them live in peace. But before that they have to deal with another shocker, her pregnancy and Basus’ bashing.
