JC was presented as hot. There's a big difference between natural lust, which humans are aware of and somewhat prepared to deal with, and a supernatural power. She might have been attracted to him without the ardeur, but since she didn't like, love, or even respect him, without that supernatural ability he didn't have a real chance of getting someone who claimed to be waiting for marriage into bed without it.
It's really jumping to conclusions to say that a character who would blackmail a woman into dating him, and was desperate to possess her power would use his supernatural abilities to make her lust after him.
The arguments I made ARE based on the text and the behavior of the characters, unlike your assumptions that Micah acted deliberately, when the behavior of the ardeur and Micah's complete passivity in every other instance completely contradict that.
I never said that JC's addictiveness was personal. What difference would that make? He lied to her about his powers in order to make her think the lust was something between the two of them, not a power he could use on anyone. He wanted to addict her so she'd be less likely to leave him even if she did eventually find out.
I don't like Micah. I think he's a tool, partly JC's. But you and other people who claim to be feminists have said you like a character who blackmails and manipulates a woman, then infects her with an eternal roofie without even warning her so she could choose whether to take the risk.
Since Anita never punishes JC for his behavior, I guess it's just what she secretly wanted all along, but that's the case with all the so-called "heroines" in bodice-rippers, and the controlling creeps who supposedly love them.
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Date: 2008-01-02 07:51 pm (UTC)It's really jumping to conclusions to say that a character who would blackmail a woman into dating him, and was desperate to possess her power would use his supernatural abilities to make her lust after him.
The arguments I made ARE based on the text and the behavior of the characters, unlike your assumptions that Micah acted deliberately, when the behavior of the ardeur and Micah's complete passivity in every other instance completely contradict that.
I never said that JC's addictiveness was personal. What difference would that make? He lied to her about his powers in order to make her think the lust was something between the two of them, not a power he could use on anyone. He wanted to addict her so she'd be less likely to leave him even if she did eventually find out.
I don't like Micah. I think he's a tool, partly JC's. But you and other people who claim to be feminists have said you like a character who blackmails and manipulates a woman, then infects her with an eternal roofie without even warning her so she could choose whether to take the risk.
Since Anita never punishes JC for his behavior, I guess it's just what she secretly wanted all along, but that's the case with all the so-called "heroines" in bodice-rippers, and the controlling creeps who supposedly love them.