"You better kiss me," she said, "it's tradition after all."
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What is the power dynamic between the Captain of a ship and the mascotte of another ship? I'm concerned this might be sexual harassment. It's probably okay because Penny doesn't have any way of punishing Darby if he doesn't kiss her the way Randolph could punish Darby if he didn't kiss him. This is probably like if the CEO of Microsoft fucked the Phillie Phanatic's face. It would just be one individual whose power in their own field doesn't overlap in any way the other person's field and thus divorces that power from any intimate actions of which the two partake. The only concern for me, in that situation, is that one of those two hypothetical individuals seems a little bit rapey to me. You know which one I mean. I mean the one less likely to sue me for slander.
I wish my junior high school crush Marilyn had been this forward in the library that day when the note we'd been passing back and forth during lunch had returned to me with "I love you anyways" and I just became super embarrassed and awkward and laughed and stopped responding with the note like a big dumb socially retarded buffoon. If' only she'd said, "You better kiss me!" Although is that any less intimidating than "I love you anyway" which caused me to completely shut down and fall apart? If she'd said, "You better kiss me," my brain would have fired up an embolism on the spot and put me out of my misery for good.
