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I think Asuna's situation and peoples reaction again ties into the separation between fiction and metafiction I talked about a bunch of episodes ago.
Some people look at her situation and think that while unfortunate, it's something pretty much anyone would be unable to escape from, that Asuna is putting on an incredibly brave face for someone in her situation, and while that Sugou's a tad over the top, scumbags like him are all too common in real life as well.
Others look at it and only see Kuwahara pulling all the strings, because the author wrote those characters, put them in those situations, and controls whether or not Asuna escapes or gets molested or whatever.
Some stories are enhanced by trying to see it from the authors perspective, others are better to just sit back and pretend the puppets are real. Whichever one SAO is is up to individual taste, but between these two viewpoints there can be little reconciliation, because they end up discussing two totally different things.
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