A light bulb joke, and LKH's rape fantasties

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

As some of you have seen, 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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[easol.livejournal.com]

But of course, all this basically apply in LKH's mind to Anita and no one else. I recently reread some LKH books in a library, and almost snorted when I read JC solemnly announcing that in the mind of teh ebil blonde Musette, a man has enjoyed himself sexually if he has an orgasm and it isn't rape. Since this focuses on someone other than Anita, she and JC immediately agree that this isn't true.

So LKH is aware of these facts as described, but somehow doesn't think that it applies to her.

To Hamilton "no" does not mean "no". It means "convince me some more".

Also saw that in CS, where Asher telling Anita no led to her trapping him in the room and insisting that she wouldn't "let" him decide to leave.

[easol.livejournal.com]

"It's a clear case of her KNOWING what is right and wrong and disregarding it for her character/avatar."

Yup. That scene where she won't let Asher leave unless he boinks her (on her terms, of course) was so sickening for me, because despite her show of concern she obviously didn't give a damn about his psychological well-bring.

And then of course we got poor Joseph, whom I still maintain must be based on some poor soul whom LKH coveted, but who rejected her (using "I'm very flattered, but I'm MARRIED" as an explanation, one wonders?). Nobody gets to demand sex from Anita, as we've seen many times, because that would be rape -- but she can from them.

What will be left after she rapes the openly unwilling, one wonders? Killing the innocent probably -- and I'm sure she'll excuse that away too.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Or both. I just hope nobody forms opinions about this sort of thing from her work.

In the words of Melora Creager: "This is evil done knowingly!"

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

In the Anita series she will always judge her actions as acceptable or right.

To do a call back to a conversation about Raina. Ask her victims if her actions are harmful or evil.