But I looked back, and they've been sitting here for the last three pages listening to Anita and Richard yell at each other about incredibly private things. Jeez. It is so incredibly awkward to me how often this sort of thing happens in the series, at least in Bullet and Skin Trade and the others I sporked.
This is forced emotional voyeurism EVERYONE HAS TO PAY ATTENTION TO ANITA'S PROBLEMS AND PERSONAL LIFE
HAS TO!
because he is from a time when no one was ever upset about pregnancy. Oh LKH. Even in the Generic Ye Olde-Timey Fantasy Europe that she thinks all of history is, most people would still have reason to be upset about a pregnancy because most people were peasants and thus could only afford to feed so many mouths. And even the nobility (aka the only people who ever matter enough to think about when fantasizing about Ye Olden Times that never existed as envisioned) would still have times when that would be anywhere from inconvenient to The Very Worst Thing because having a baby could very well kill you, issues of inheritance, all sorts of shit. Yeah, clearly Samuel's native time must be the fucking future.
Besides the history fail, this idea that vampires follow every cultural more from their own time and place, and only the most stereotypical of those, is one of many things that make Anita Blake's world stupid. Vampires are not only stuck in time; there were apparently no vampires who saw any problems with the culture they lived in before they were vampirized, or had any tastes differing from each other, or were political activists in their time, or etc.
Seriously, it is SO STUPID. LKH kinda tries to account for this in Skin Trade with Henry the non-important pudgey vampire having his most vivid memories "in a time when women still wore bustles" ..hang on, lemme find the spork http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/8872.html
I'm often sad for Anita because she's such a pitiable example of a self-insert. Instead of men falling at her feet because she is awesome, they HAVE to fall at her feet; they are forced to by the ardeur, or because they sense an “animal” in her that matches theirs, or because no other woman wants them. Instead of men staying with her because they want to, they HAVE to stick around or they will die, or they're metaphysically bound to her by being her animal to call, or she's a therian queen to their king. Right? She's not actually portrayed as desireable at all. It makes me think that maybe the real fantasy that she's playing out for LKH isn't so much being beautiful and awesome and people wanting to be with her for that so much as a fantasy of total control and the whole point is that her lovers HAVE to be with her. Which says pretty freaky things about LKH.
WTF do “sorry” and “submissive” have to do with each other? Because apologizing for anything ever is the same thing as submitting which is terrible. It's not about right or wrong it's about WINNING OR LOSING RRGH!
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Date: 2013-11-18 09:50 pm (UTC)It is so incredibly awkward to me how often this sort of thing happens in the series, at least in Bullet and Skin Trade and the others I sporked.
This is forced emotional voyeurism
EVERYONE HAS TO PAY ATTENTION TO ANITA'S PROBLEMS AND PERSONAL LIFE
HAS TO!
because he is from a time when no one was ever upset about pregnancy.
Oh LKH. Even in the Generic Ye Olde-Timey Fantasy Europe that she thinks all of history is, most people would still have reason to be upset about a pregnancy because most people were peasants and thus could only afford to feed so many mouths. And even the nobility (aka the only people who ever matter enough to think about when fantasizing about Ye Olden Times that never existed as envisioned) would still have times when that would be anywhere from inconvenient to The Very Worst Thing because having a baby could very well kill you, issues of inheritance, all sorts of shit. Yeah, clearly Samuel's native time must be the fucking future.
Besides the history fail, this idea that vampires follow every cultural more from their own time and place, and only the most stereotypical of those, is one of many things that make Anita Blake's world stupid. Vampires are not only stuck in time; there were apparently no vampires who saw any problems with the culture they lived in before they were vampirized, or had any tastes differing from each other, or were political activists in their time, or etc.
Seriously, it is SO STUPID. LKH kinda tries to account for this in Skin Trade with Henry the non-important pudgey vampire having his most vivid memories "in a time when women still wore bustles" ..hang on, lemme find the spork
http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/8872.html
I'm often sad for Anita because she's such a pitiable example of a self-insert. Instead of men falling at her feet because she is awesome, they HAVE to fall at her feet; they are forced to by the ardeur, or because they sense an “animal” in her that matches theirs, or because no other woman wants them. Instead of men staying with her because they want to, they HAVE to stick around or they will die, or they're metaphysically bound to her by being her animal to call, or she's a therian queen to their king.
Right? She's not actually portrayed as desireable at all. It makes me think that maybe the real fantasy that she's playing out for LKH isn't so much being beautiful and awesome and people wanting to be with her for that so much as a fantasy of total control and the whole point is that her lovers HAVE to be with her. Which says pretty freaky things about LKH.
WTF do “sorry” and “submissive” have to do with each other?
Because apologizing for anything ever is the same thing as submitting which is terrible. It's not about right or wrong it's about WINNING OR LOSING RRGH!