This exonerates Ryan - who doesnt get punishment for taking the photos nor is ever found out apparently. Arabella and Terry believe that Ryan is being framed for rape (which is correct) and reveal the photos to the principal, not realizing that Ryan had taken them without Theos consent, to clear him and show solidarity. Theo then cuts herself and later accuses Ryan of raping her to explain her injuries. Theodora has sex with Ryan, but he takes photos of the encounter without Theos consent. The Alliance (a Flashback Episode) shows this at play, when Terry and Arabella were in college with Theodora.
It is portrayed as similarly traumatizing. Malik's rape of Kwame is brief but unpleasant to watch as it's very clear what's happening and Kwame keeps asking him to stop. Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male: Played With.It's having sex under pretences, she points out, but Kwame also asserts that Nilufer literally pressured him into having sex with her - which is true, as shown in the scenes of them in bed. Bella reacts badly to finding out that Kwame didn't tell Nilufer he was gay before having sex with her, because she's very sensitive about consent after being raped twice. Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Thoroughly Played for Drama with regards to Kwame and Nilufer.Autobiographical Role: Arabella is a loosely fictionalized version of Coel, struggling with assault and a potential Sophomore Slump invoked after a first successful work about a dark-skinned black millennial woman similar to Chewing Gum.Thus, she later comes to view the threesome in a more harrowing light. Terry proudly flaunts the fact that she's had one to her date, but he helps her realize that she'd been tricked into having it. A Threesome Is Hot: Ultimately Subverted.He ditched the very drunk, very high Arabella in Camden to go hook up with Alissa, his other woman. Accomplice by Inaction: Simon is this to Arabella's rape.I May Destroy You provides examples of the following tropes: If she can't remember, how could she have consented? Then she wakes up unable to piece together the events of the night, and begins to suspect she may have been sexually assaulted. Arabella ( Michaela Coel, Black Earth Rising and Chewing Gum) is a writer struggling to work on her second novel after a smash hit.