Sir, Butler and Boy ~ Morning Ablutions ~ Page 3
A splash of the bay rum, sir?
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this awesome video on consent, using tea as a metaphor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXju34Uwuys
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I love how all their names are similar. It somehow seems like it makes them.more connected? I dunno, it’s cute cx
Also I love the consent and trust between them all. Not seen often enough in yaoi genres.
yessss, i headcanoned his name was James and then it was. John, Jefferson, and James.
Perfect.
https://youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8
Updated youtube link for the Tea Consent video.
Don’t know why that ended up as a reply. My apologies.
That is a Quali-TEA consent video!
Tea-rrific!
The video doesn’t exist anymore. :(
This video was actually shown on the morning announcements at school, and after it ended our math teacher said, “I wish I had some tea.” To this day nobody knows if she was talking about real tea or not because she was kind of odd and impossible to read!
So the master really did proposition his servants? How on earth can he ever be sure they’re not just telling him whatever he wants to hear, in order to keep their jobs?
How can we as readers believe the romance is real?
You can write all the assurances of consent you want. As long as it’s a situation with such vastly different levels in social power, and with such horrible consequences possible for one partner if they refuse or even just upset the other (again, there’s no law or social security net to protect the servant if he gets fired), there can’t be any meaningful consent.
This is why sexual harrassment in the workplace is such a big deal nowadays.
While in general I would agree with you in real-life cases, I just don’t think your comment is salient to this work of fiction–a work set in a time before our modern-day conceptions of consent, mind you. I think the genuine affection between all three parties is plain to see the longer you read. And maybe it’s incurably European of me, but I don’t think we should treat relationships with such rigid moralism. Love, sex, consent, everything human and personal–these things aren’t legal contracts to be boxed and squared away, all drawn up angles and uncompromising limits. And sanitizing fiction to fit this rigid ideology–god, what a miserably puritanical stance! What breadths of stories would that erase?