Question about Sawyer's treatment of Kate

I don't know whether this has been discussed at length or at all here, but, has anyone else been really put off by Sawyer's incessant objectification and sexualization of Kate? One, of many examples, that comes to mind is when Kate is forced to wear the dress while hauling rocks and Sawyer will not stop leering at her as she bends over, then he is staring at her cleavage while cracking jokes with their captor. And, as if that was not gross enough, he charges her and grabs her face to kiss her. The writers framed all of it as somehow romantic, but I found it demeaning, completely disrespectful and upsetting, in fact.

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