"Lolita" was supposed to be an unsettling book but look at how :libertarian-approaching: and otaku (that call their own version of child porn "loli") and weebs (the ones that call themselves "lolicons") for that matter interpreted it.
:epstein: 's plane was named after that damn book, too.
I thought the point of "Lolita" was that the teacher/main character had the weird unsettling feelings, which led to him misinterpreting the affection of a child for a desire for physical intimacy?
I should add that I've never read the book, but I did have a coworker who studied it for a class at a point, and she talked a lot about how the book was fundamentally misunderstood in its popular context, since the "girl" in the book isn't ever meant to be sexy, and we're supposed to see that the descriptions of the girl as sexy is a sign of the main characters psychosis.
That type of shit takes such a careful reading honestly
Like a lot of popular teen romance books like twilight are effectively doing the same thing - describing objectively creepy and abusive behavior (from an actual adult toward a child in the case of that particular series) but then before the reader can really digest that, the narrator is like "...and she found that extremely attractive" which sort of forces that interpretation. When it's explicitly about a pedo there's a strong barrier there for most people, but it's no wonder pedos are just like, oh yeah great pro-pedo book
Yeah that sounds like it could be a good unsettling book. Not a movie.
"Lolita" was supposed to be an unsettling book but look at how :libertarian-approaching: and otaku (that call their own version of child porn "loli") and weebs (the ones that call themselves "lolicons") for that matter interpreted it.
:epstein: 's plane was named after that damn book, too.
I thought the point of "Lolita" was that the teacher/main character had the weird unsettling feelings, which led to him misinterpreting the affection of a child for a desire for physical intimacy? I should add that I've never read the book, but I did have a coworker who studied it for a class at a point, and she talked a lot about how the book was fundamentally misunderstood in its popular context, since the "girl" in the book isn't ever meant to be sexy, and we're supposed to see that the descriptions of the girl as sexy is a sign of the main characters psychosis.
That type of shit takes such a careful reading honestly
Like a lot of popular teen romance books like twilight are effectively doing the same thing - describing objectively creepy and abusive behavior (from an actual adult toward a child in the case of that particular series) but then before the reader can really digest that, the narrator is like "...and she found that extremely attractive" which sort of forces that interpretation. When it's explicitly about a pedo there's a strong barrier there for most people, but it's no wonder pedos are just like, oh yeah great pro-pedo book
Cause, even in the movie herbet is clearly a bad guy. But you are still watching him do it which is terrible
I L L U S T R A T I O N
He's clearly a bad guy to anymore who goes in acknowledging pedophilia is wrong.
He becomes a hero (or, at least, anti-hero) to the sickos.