But I wonder if she realises how harmful it is? You make a really interesting and excellent point below about why it's perhaps horrible to see such things in TVA but not her Sleeping Beauty series.
My God, I read the most outlandish, abusive stuff in SB but that's the genre. I came into it expecting it and yes, I agree: you allow pr0n to be much more elastic in terms of morals.
I found it very, very hard to stomach in the context of characters I know and care about and can't explain how creeped out I was by TVA.
A member of my family was abused and to think of them picking up that book and reading those passages upsets me. Because it's somehow normalising things in a way that SB wouldn't. I despise censorship of literature (I must rant to you about university students at one university trying to get The Handmaid's Tale banned but when an author doesn't present any ambiguity - a la Nabokov - and tries to titillate me with something I find deeply uncomfortable, I do wonder at her loudly shouting about the sexualisation of children.
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Date: 2011-06-02 04:09 pm (UTC)But I wonder if she realises how harmful it is? You make a really interesting and excellent point below about why it's perhaps horrible to see such things in TVA but not her Sleeping Beauty series.
My God, I read the most outlandish, abusive stuff in SB but that's the genre. I came into it expecting it and yes, I agree: you allow pr0n to be much more elastic in terms of morals.
I found it very, very hard to stomach in the context of characters I know and care about and can't explain how creeped out I was by TVA.
A member of my family was abused and to think of them picking up that book and reading those passages upsets me. Because it's somehow normalising things in a way that SB wouldn't. I despise censorship of literature (I must rant to you about university students at one university trying to get The Handmaid's Tale banned but when an author doesn't present any ambiguity - a la Nabokov - and tries to titillate me with something I find deeply uncomfortable, I do wonder at her loudly shouting about the sexualisation of children.
It's just... hypocritical. :|