I'd like to give Sam's parents, for obvious reasons, as well as his university (that is a seriously dirty and coercive false choice there) and his advisor of the oh-so-unhelpful commentary swift kicks in the pants. Several swift kicks in the pants, even.
I may well end up prompting you for a follow-up to this, because Sam deserves WAAAAYYY better than he's currently getting, hopeful ending or no. And someone should seriously take that university administration to task for their epic mishandling of the love potion mess. Bonus points if it's the quiltbag community raising the objections that get the ball rolling. If I were in a gender and/or sexuality-related class, the last thing I'd want is to discover that a resentful dudebro with a suspected creepy history had crashed it, and didn't want to be there. Add to that the wider issue of open, admin-lead coercion...
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I may well end up prompting you for a follow-up to this, because Sam deserves WAAAAYYY better than he's currently getting, hopeful ending or no. And someone should seriously take that university administration to task for their epic mishandling of the love potion mess. Bonus points if it's the quiltbag community raising the objections that get the ball rolling. If I were in a gender and/or sexuality-related class, the last thing I'd want is to discover that a resentful dudebro with a suspected creepy history had crashed it, and didn't want to be there. Add to that the wider issue of open, admin-lead coercion...