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!

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

Laughably, it's in Hit List that one of the side-characters brings up, "maybe that guy is misogynist?" about this one cop's hate-boner for Anita. As far as I could tell, it was only directed at her and none of the other (albeit, few in number) female characters. And then there was a "golly, that's a big word for you to know!" but everyone agrees that it was misogyny and not anything Anita could have done. Even though up until that point, she's withheld vital information from the police that could save lives, tried to manipulate them into giving over their warrants so she can do the job (TO SAVE LIVES! Or something?! the point is that everyone else not good enough!), and blown off the task force for a booty call. The hate-on has some valid criticism sprinkled in there, but it's all dismissed with the same, "but I'm the best and you're just jealous."