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A model and activist who helped write a character on the new season of Sex Education has criticised the show after tuning in.<\/p>\n
The fourth and final season of the drama series hit screens this week, with a raft of new characters being introduced.<\/p>\n
One included Sarah \u2018O\u2019 Owen, played by Thaddea Graham.<\/p>\n
Known simply as O, the student runs a sex therapy clinic at Cavendish College and has built up a loyal client list, until Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) emerges as a rival.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the new episodes being released, Yasmin Benoit, an asexual activist who worked as a scriptwriter and consultant spoke about how she wanted O to help \u2018defy stereotypes\u2019.<\/p>\n
However, she\u2019s now slammed the show after seeing how the character was actually portrayed.<\/p>\n
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Posting on social media after watching the eight episodes, Yasmin said she \u2018wanted to share something important regarding O\u2019s character\u2019 as someone who was \u2018closely involved in creating her and the story\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve finally had time to watch the season and was disappointed to see that some important moments were cut out or changed,\u2019 she posted on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n
She went on to reference a scene between O and Otis that takes part in a lift, sharing that viewers \u2018didn\u2019t get to see the impact of race, privilege and acephobia as much as intended\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s just mentioned in passing.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Yasmin also said there was meant to be a scene where O was bullied because of her asexuality, but instead the lines were \u2018removed\u2019 and \u2018made it seem like O humiliated Ruby (Mimi Keene) unprompted\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Whereas scenes that made Otis look bad in his desperation to bring O down were removed.\u2019<\/p>\n
She went on to claim that \u2018maybe someone decided that Otis wasn\u2019t coming across well enough, so they made O look worse\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Maybe they just didn\u2019t have enough time to resorted to exposition, not realising that scenes portraying an asexual character as inherently \u201ccold\u201d was dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Explaining how O was \u2018not meant to be a villain\u2019, Yasmin said she was instead a woman of colour \u2018being pushed out of a space she had found success in by a white guy who thought he deserved to be there more than her\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018She was meant to be the target of a petty smear campaign that led to her being outed.<\/p>\n
\u2018That doesn\u2019t come across as much as it did in the script, but I\u2019m grateful to have been able to work on the character and storyline, and I\u2019m glad that people have enjoyed her anyway.\u2019<\/p>\n
She added: \u2018I think that those who didn\u2019t would have done if more of O\u2019s moments were included.\u2019<\/p>\n
She went on to explain that quotes she had given ahead of the series airing had taken place before watching, and when she \u2018thought it was depicted the way it was in the script\u2019.<\/p>\n