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HIT LIST, CHAPTER THIRTY
Oct. 12th, 2013 04:21 pmIf you've read Shutdown or read a sporking of it, you know what a vile, mean-spirited, Mary Sue masturbatibation spite-fic that it is. And I have a theory about it. Ellen, the victim of the it that we are all supposed to hate, is not a judgemental meanie at all. Everything she says and does is very reasonable and tolerant up until she just finally gets pushed too far by everyone being an asshole to her. Now, we all know that LKH can write straw-men with the best of them, and she's not the kind of author who ever likes to give the 'villain' (or anything who has a problem with the protagonist) any kind of good points or sympathy, so you'd think she'd choose to make Ellen the most frothing judgey self-righteous horrible mean bigot she could, especially since Anita's reaction would be much more understandable that way. But she doesn't. Ellen sounds and acts like a real person...
...and I think that's because she is. I think this is a revenge fic on someone that actually exists and is based on something that actually happened. LKH has been pretty open that she and Jon her husband Jon are poly and have other lovers. I think one of those other lovers tried to bring their girlfriend into the fray. The girlfriend said some of the same things that Ellen did, LKH (who was probably already biased against her for existing and just looking for an excuse) took it as BIGOTRY and PERSECUTION and decided to vent via a petty hateful revenge fic and then share what should have just been a private fantasy (as is the case with most of her work these days) with the world under the pretense of it being a 'gift' the second she saw an opportunity (since I'm sure even her usually over-indulgent publishers told her that no way no how could this be charged for). I have no doubt that she'd indeed see such innocuous remarks, made from well-meaning wanting-to-learn ignorance rather than judgmental ignorance, as being the assaults that Anita treated them as. As we all know, she shelters herself from any criticism, seems to take anything less than praise as an attack, and pretty obviously has no idea what actual bigotry looks like, as has been discussed here regarding her portrayal of in AB. Add that one to her rampant hate-on for anything female potentially getting near her guys, or even just being near enough to get attention that should be going to her, and yeah, perfect storm.
I don't usually like to speculate on her life, it feels tacky and reaching and assumptive to a mean point, but she makes it very, very hard not to given how transparent she makes it that AB is a window in to her psyche, and once this thought entered my head about Ellen, the rest really just fell into place automatically.
I'd also like to add that I showed Dottie's spork of it to a friend of mine who is poly...said friend pretty much flipped her shit at Anita/LKH, and rightly so. It actually makes me glad I'm not poly too or I'd probably be even more appalled by the whole thing, if that's even possible.
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...and I think that's because she is. I think this is a revenge fic on someone that actually exists and is based on something that actually happened. LKH has been pretty open that she and Jon her husband Jon are poly and have other lovers. I think one of those other lovers tried to bring their girlfriend into the fray. The girlfriend said some of the same things that Ellen did, LKH (who was probably already biased against her for existing and just looking for an excuse) took it as BIGOTRY and PERSECUTION and decided to vent via a petty hateful revenge fic and then share what should have just been a private fantasy (as is the case with most of her work these days) with the world under the pretense of it being a 'gift' the second she saw an opportunity (since I'm sure even her usually over-indulgent publishers told her that no way no how could this be charged for). I have no doubt that she'd indeed see such innocuous remarks, made from well-meaning wanting-to-learn ignorance rather than judgmental ignorance, as being the assaults that Anita treated them as. As we all know, she shelters herself from any criticism, seems to take anything less than praise as an attack, and pretty obviously has no idea what actual bigotry looks like, as has been discussed here regarding her portrayal of in AB. Add that one to her rampant hate-on for anything female potentially getting near her guys, or even just being near enough to get attention that should be going to her, and yeah, perfect storm.
I don't usually like to speculate on her life, it feels tacky and reaching and assumptive to a mean point, but she makes it very, very hard not to given how transparent she makes it that AB is a window in to her psyche, and once this thought entered my head about Ellen, the rest really just fell into place automatically.
I'd also like to add that I showed Dottie's spork of it to a friend of mine who is poly...said friend pretty much flipped her shit at Anita/LKH, and rightly so. It actually makes me glad I'm not poly too or I'd probably be even more appalled by the whole thing, if that's even possible.
( HIT LIST, CHAPTER THIRTY )
