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kippurbird has been flogging Danse Macabre something fierce. The flog is now on Chapter 33. While the whole thing made me laugh, there was a little joke that made me want to post it here, with Kippur's permission:
How does Anita Blake change a light bulb?
She holds it up and the world revolves around her.
This, I think, sums up everything about the Anita Blake books. As well as Hamilton's life, really. Or what she thinks of as her life. As Kippur said, the self-centeredness of both Anita and Laurell are starting to really grate.
The scene with London being forced to have sex with Anita actually scared me, especially considering London's obvious reluctance and outright fear. From what I got out of it, Anita essentially raped London, and didn't even care how it had affected him. I'd told Kippur that I'd once had a friend who had been a rape victim more than once, and one of her rapists had been an ex-boyfriend with a cocaine addiction. When my friend read that scene, she started having severe flashbacks to both the rape and watching the boyfriend's addiction, because she saw Anita's ardeur as a metaphor for a date rape drug as addictive as cocaine.
It's so frustrating -- and frightening -- to think that LKH writes this crap probably knowing full well that it could compare to such serious trauma.
kippurbird has been flogging Danse Macabre something fierce. The flog is now on Chapter 33. While the whole thing made me laugh, there was a little joke that made me want to post it here, with Kippur's permission:How does Anita Blake change a light bulb?
She holds it up and the world revolves around her.
This, I think, sums up everything about the Anita Blake books. As well as Hamilton's life, really. Or what she thinks of as her life. As Kippur said, the self-centeredness of both Anita and Laurell are starting to really grate.
The scene with London being forced to have sex with Anita actually scared me, especially considering London's obvious reluctance and outright fear. From what I got out of it, Anita essentially raped London, and didn't even care how it had affected him. I'd told Kippur that I'd once had a friend who had been a rape victim more than once, and one of her rapists had been an ex-boyfriend with a cocaine addiction. When my friend read that scene, she started having severe flashbacks to both the rape and watching the boyfriend's addiction, because she saw Anita's ardeur as a metaphor for a date rape drug as addictive as cocaine.
It's so frustrating -- and frightening -- to think that LKH writes this crap probably knowing full well that it could compare to such serious trauma.
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Date: 2008-05-27 09:28 pm (UTC)What she did to Richard in NiC was more clearly a rape than anything else in the series including the Micah shower-scene, since she could feel his fear through the mind-link and enjoyed forcing herself on the one man who wouldn't allow him to control her, the way a bully of a man would enjoy raping a woman he couldn't control.
He told her before hand that he wouldn't feed the ardeur, when it started he screamed, pushed her hands away and tried to leave the room. He clearly felt violated, and Anita even blamed the victim by saying he never said no.
Afterwards, because he had enough remaining self-esteem to leave her, he's called self-loathing, and the fans agree with her, and blame him for hurting her? When an abused person leaves their abuser, it's not considered to be hurting the abuser by sane people, and no one would blame him, or side with her if the genders were reversed.
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Date: 2008-06-01 12:41 am (UTC)Yeah, that's pretty blatant.
Jeeze.