I'm beginning to think that the sex, contrary to popular opinion, IS what's keeping these books afloat.
Somehow I got the impression that popular opinion was that sex was what was keeping the books afloat. I do think that's what is -- well, sex and relationship drama.
For a woman who claims to be so liberated, she's clearly incredibly prudish.
Yep. She also never writes flirting.
If they're all low-IQ psychopaths, that... actually does explain why they act like the worst imaginable prison population.
It does! Wow, your description actually does explain *all* of it. You've got the people who "win" by being rapists because they're (meta)physically the strongest, and those who "lose" by being raped and therefore scorned by everyone else (who are terrified they'll be next). The entire society is built around this.
In all fairness, some people (...with slight verbal-processing issues) do take questions like that as invalidating their emotions, since... apparently their every motivation and quirk of mental reasoning should be immediately clear to everyone for miles around?
Yes, and if this weren't Anita, I would have a response other than "STUPID!" to her. I might think she was behaving this way because she was embarrassed, scared, and confused in a very emotional situation, and this stranger is trying to calm her down or something, as if he has any right to have an opinion or talk to her about it, and so she lashes out to try to protect her boundaries. But this is Anita.
You think that's pitiable? I think that's being too charitable. Anita doesn't WANT anyone to serve of their free will.
This is true, and I think it's pitiable. It doesn't mean I excuse anything she does, or feel sympathetic toward her at all. I just think she's pathetic. Someone who can't love and is terrified of being loved -- it really is sad, I think.
In the L.M. Montgomery book A Tangled Web, one character warns another to find something to love or the devil will get them. (Not romantic love, but any love: a kitten, in that case.) I think that Anita's terror regarding love has made her evil. And her loveless life is so empty. I feel sorry for her while also wanting her to die.
Consider Anita's attitudes towards sexuality, then think about whether that's really such an absurd statement in Anitaverse...
I did that on purpose ;)
Alternatively, that Richard is irritating but rather cute and provides a convenient foe for Anita, while Nathaniel is a sleazy manipulator who might interfere with HIS sleazy manipulations
Ooh, good point. Nathaniel is also in that second triumvurate thingy, and that takes Anita's attention and possibly power away from JC.
You have two more chapters of this before Anita even gets around to peeing on the stick!
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Date: 2013-11-18 09:15 pm (UTC)Somehow I got the impression that popular opinion was that sex was what was keeping the books afloat. I do think that's what is -- well, sex and relationship drama.
For a woman who claims to be so liberated, she's clearly incredibly prudish.
Yep. She also never writes flirting.
If they're all low-IQ psychopaths, that... actually does explain why they act like the worst imaginable prison population.
It does! Wow, your description actually does explain *all* of it. You've got the people who "win" by being rapists because they're (meta)physically the strongest, and those who "lose" by being raped and therefore scorned by everyone else (who are terrified they'll be next). The entire society is built around this.
In all fairness, some people (...with slight verbal-processing issues) do take questions like that as invalidating their emotions, since... apparently their every motivation and quirk of mental reasoning should be immediately clear to everyone for miles around?
Yes, and if this weren't Anita, I would have a response other than "STUPID!" to her. I might think she was behaving this way because she was embarrassed, scared, and confused in a very emotional situation, and this stranger is trying to calm her down or something, as if he has any right to have an opinion or talk to her about it, and so she lashes out to try to protect her boundaries. But this is Anita.
You think that's pitiable? I think that's being too charitable. Anita doesn't WANT anyone to serve of their free will.
This is true, and I think it's pitiable. It doesn't mean I excuse anything she does, or feel sympathetic toward her at all. I just think she's pathetic. Someone who can't love and is terrified of being loved -- it really is sad, I think.
In the L.M. Montgomery book A Tangled Web, one character warns another to find something to love or the devil will get them. (Not romantic love, but any love: a kitten, in that case.) I think that Anita's terror regarding love has made her evil. And her loveless life is so empty. I feel sorry for her while also wanting her to die.
Consider Anita's attitudes towards sexuality, then think about whether that's really such an absurd statement in Anitaverse...
I did that on purpose ;)
Alternatively, that Richard is irritating but rather cute and provides a convenient foe for Anita, while Nathaniel is a sleazy manipulator who might interfere with HIS sleazy manipulations
Ooh, good point. Nathaniel is also in that second triumvurate thingy, and that takes Anita's attention and possibly power away from JC.
You have two more chapters of this before Anita even gets around to peeing on the stick!
WHY SO STUPID, ANITA?