perhaps I should stop
Jul. 14th, 2009 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wishfulclicking100 Years of Solitude is still skeeving me out! IDK. But this book is haunting me; it was referenced yesterday about books that you SHOULD NOT IGNORE and that made me want to crack it open again and I got through another hundred pages and then another weird sexual thing with children happened:
If you remember my previous post on this book, I was noting the courtship of a nine year old by an adult male and how it was cool with everyone and how that made me uncomfortable. One hundred pages later, I have an older woman and a younger man hooking up in a clandestine affair.
Fair play?
My issues: this older woman and younger man, they are aunt and nephew; also, she raised him from infancy, almost as her own child. This is massive power dynamics going on here! I maybe could take it better if she hadn't raised him from childhood but she did. At first him getting into her bed is a childhood thing, a carryover from when he was younger, but then she almost gets married and he keeps on getting into bed, and then one night, an implied handjob occurs...then they start making out and stuff when no one is looking. It's one thing to have the younger man develop a crush, but the aunt should have stopped it before it went there. Yes, she does eventually stop after she has an epiphany.
There is this running question of whether the couples of the book should reproduce because most of them are related. Often the question is: what if they aren't human? what if they have pig tails? and now I'm thinking that though the children appear human, maybe they actually aren't. Maybe the first generation look fine on the outside but don't really touch humanity, because all of the three children do some horrible things.
I've got so many posts ideas in my head about Fandom. Most of them are spurred by the recent happenings in bandom, but with all of this going on around me, I've started thinking about what I love and get out of Fandom as a whole, and how has it changed for me. So expect some posts later on that.
If you remember my previous post on this book, I was noting the courtship of a nine year old by an adult male and how it was cool with everyone and how that made me uncomfortable. One hundred pages later, I have an older woman and a younger man hooking up in a clandestine affair.
Fair play?
My issues: this older woman and younger man, they are aunt and nephew; also, she raised him from infancy, almost as her own child. This is massive power dynamics going on here! I maybe could take it better if she hadn't raised him from childhood but she did. At first him getting into her bed is a childhood thing, a carryover from when he was younger, but then she almost gets married and he keeps on getting into bed, and then one night, an implied handjob occurs...then they start making out and stuff when no one is looking. It's one thing to have the younger man develop a crush, but the aunt should have stopped it before it went there. Yes, she does eventually stop after she has an epiphany.
There is this running question of whether the couples of the book should reproduce because most of them are related. Often the question is: what if they aren't human? what if they have pig tails? and now I'm thinking that though the children appear human, maybe they actually aren't. Maybe the first generation look fine on the outside but don't really touch humanity, because all of the three children do some horrible things.
I've got so many posts ideas in my head about Fandom. Most of them are spurred by the recent happenings in bandom, but with all of this going on around me, I've started thinking about what I love and get out of Fandom as a whole, and how has it changed for me. So expect some posts later on that.
