An observation while writing a huge meta about Rabbit's relationship with gender, asexuality, and violence:
In looking at the structure of S1, how it unfolds, we learn more each episode about Rabbit's threshold for violence, what lines he's willing to cross, how he hurts people. And it's not a coincidence that first half has him interacting with more women. It's perfectly split, Valerie, Liz, Bobby & Maxine, Toad, Bianco men.
Gender is definitely not the only barrier between him and violence, we know that, for example in comparison to Toad in their approaches to Pintér. And some of it's Toad being such an outlier. But also I think his relationship with Toad is supposed to be reminiscent of friendships between men in actuality.
And he's definitely a little different around women, more careful in how he carries himself. Especially looking at Maxine vs Bobby and Liz vs Toad.
I can add onto this if anyone would like, I've written a lot about this in that draft, and I might cut some of it from there bc idk how much is gonna be relevant to the main point of that meta.
