Okay. I don't normally comment here, but this one just... AARGH. Somebody actually wrote this, in seriousness? People read this and are attracted to this Patch character?
Compared to this, the creepy abusiveness in Twilight is downright subliminal. This just reads like the author looked up a list of criteria for sexual harrassment and made sur to include every last one of them.
Why, exactly, do all of these novels seem to assume that stalking behaviour and mental abuse (hell, this one even seems to be verging on physical abuse), invasion of personal space, etc, are attractive? How are the girls/women reading these books not creeped out by it? It's one thing to ask why the character doesn't run screaming, but all that tells us is that the author is unhinged - why don't the readers run screaming even if the character doesn't?
One thing I suspect may be going on here is simply a lack of critical reading. The author *says* the character is attractive or loving or whatever, so the readers believe it and allow it to colour everything else they see (in other words, rather than judging the character on the behaviour that is shown, they take what the author tells them at face value).
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Date: 2011-05-30 01:55 pm (UTC)Compared to this, the creepy abusiveness in Twilight is downright subliminal. This just reads like the author looked up a list of criteria for sexual harrassment and made sur to include every last one of them.
Why, exactly, do all of these novels seem to assume that stalking behaviour and mental abuse (hell, this one even seems to be verging on physical abuse), invasion of personal space, etc, are attractive? How are the girls/women reading these books not creeped out by it? It's one thing to ask why the character doesn't run screaming, but all that tells us is that the author is unhinged - why don't the readers run screaming even if the character doesn't?
One thing I suspect may be going on here is simply a lack of critical reading. The author *says* the character is attractive or loving or whatever, so the readers believe it and allow it to colour everything else they see (in other words, rather than judging the character on the behaviour that is shown, they take what the author tells them at face value).
-M.C.B.