Hmmmm...

[chubling.livejournal.com]

So, it's been a while since I read the Merry series, but my Mom and I have started this tradition of giving each other really awful romance books along with our actual Christmas presents. This year, I got her the first Merry book. I was flipping through it at her house the other day and was reminded about the Branwyn's Tears (or something really close to that) plot.

Now, the Tears are this AWFUL thing that the book makes a big deal about. They make you want to have sex with someone and are like a drug. Sound familiar? How is it that it's fine when Anita does that to people (and herself honestly), but in Merry's world, it's seen as the awful rape drug it is.

How did LKH miss that?

Comments

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

She's really quite obsessed with sexual coercion, isn't she?

[chubling.livejournal.com]

And sometimes its good, sometimes its bad. Where is the line?

[knitterleigh.livejournal.com]

I think it is probably a response to her super oppressive upbringing. She has said on many (many, many, many) occasions that she "earned her white dress" at her wedding. So one has to extrapolate that she didn't really have that healthy experimentation phase in her late teens and as a result it fucked her up (<- I'm a psych major, so I know all the technical terms :P).