Sweet Zombie Baby Jesus Is She FOR REAL?

[sweetalbatross.livejournal.com]

Well, I was a fool and tried to read NiC.

Made it 200 pages, stopped, and banished the four books I owned to backs of my case right with SMeyer's work. Which did not hurt my head as much btw

I heard somewhere that in DM, Laurita has a pregnancy scare that winds up being just a scare. And since it's pretty much common knowledge LKH=AB it made me wonder if it was her way of playing God with the whole kid thing. If that makes sense. I mean, if Anita is wish fulfillment, does that mean she wishes she never got knocked up?

Anywhoo, back to what sent me here again. The buyer's remorse comment. My friend who got me into AB mentioned off-hand that in one book (blood noir maybe? she couldn't recall) that Anita waved off a girl who was raped as buyer's remorse.

WHAT THE HELL?

Slap, punch kick.

As someone who has been through something traumatic as a child, I have strong feelings about sexual abuse/assault and this makes me want to hurt someone. So when a man is raped its OMGTRAGIC but when you're a woman, it's buyer's remorse? Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. At least SMeyer didn't go there. Dear God woman! Does this apply to younger women as well? Hope not.

Sorry, I got really mad. I cut like 3/4 of my rant down though!

Comments

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Yes she did, It was a post NiC with Edward, they talk about Peter...Edward's teenaged foster son...who was very rough and aggressive with two girls one was a virgin and one was not both claimed Peter hurt them and when they expressed that to him he kept going.

Anita said it "Sounded like Buyer's Remorse" with the first girl.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Not even the first time she's pulled this crap with rape victims, when Anita and Richard 'broke up' and he got a new GF he was pretty rough with her and she claimed it was rape. And Anita was pretty much calling for the woman's head because how DARE she...she just didnt' understand...ect.

No attempt by Anita (or anybody else) to TALK to the woman to get her side of the story was made.

[sweetalbatross.livejournal.com]

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?

How...what? And is is presented as morally right? I can understand if it's presented as the wrong thing to do but...

I need a shower and some bleach for my soul.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

I think the book is The Harlequin, because the weretiger who attacked Peter was one of them, and Peter wasn't in Hit List.

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

Yup. I remember Anita thinking this about Peter's girlfriends too. It's a jarring thought of hers that is treated offhandedly by the author. As if any tough, logical, pragmatic person would come to the same conclusion. Yuck.

I tried to fix this in my head, thinking Anita's attitude is evidence of just how much her own experiences with taking men against their will have damaged her. But I don't think LKH is that good of an author, nor that interested in giving Anita any kind of real flaw.