"Obsession is not love, Richard; it is a type of possessing." --> Well, at least JC knows that the way he 'courted' Anita was neither romantic nor the foundation for an actual relationship. I like a man who's honest with himself (if no one else)... and then goes about getting what he wants via the methods best suited to his purposes.
Anita: "If love makes us proof against it, then..." She has a glimmer of realization, finds it too horrible to contemplate, and then happily grabs onto JC's line of bullshit with both hands, her eyes wide shut.
Richard tells Jean-Claude that "Every time I think I've been abused, then I get another memory from your past and I realize that it could've been worse."
I get that this is supposed to be some sort of Put It Into Perspective moment but, well, this isn't like telling someone in a full body cast telling someone with a sprained ankle to stop bitching. And, while I actually HAVE heard this line of "reasoning" used between abuse victims in real life, the people using it were children and teenagers. They were all young, immature, and savagely unhappy. They all needed therapy and some kindness, although in a couple of cases they honestly wouldn't have known what to do with it.
After a certain point, though, people are supposed to develop both empathy and a modicum of common sense. That's about the time that they're supposed to realize it's ALL bad and it's ALL sad and NONE of it should've happened to anyone. Weirdly, though, I've seen this "logic" show up twice recently in mainstream media so it seems to be on the collective unconscious' mind.
But, all of that aside, it's pretty much par for the course for someone to mention JC's past abuse. People have been dredging that up for him since about book 4. Honestly, I'm super impressed with JC for politely discussing it with every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to bring it up, especially since most of them are his past or present abusers. Plus, until recently, everyone and their cousin called him 'catamite' which was both an incorrect use of the word and supposed to be a 'classier' way of calling him a 'whore', I think.
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Anita: "If love makes us proof against it, then..." She has a glimmer of realization, finds it too horrible to contemplate, and then happily grabs onto JC's line of bullshit with both hands, her eyes wide shut.
Richard tells Jean-Claude that "Every time I think I've been abused, then I get another memory from your past and I realize that it could've been worse."
I get that this is supposed to be some sort of Put It Into Perspective moment but, well, this isn't like telling someone in a full body cast telling someone with a sprained ankle to stop bitching. And, while I actually HAVE heard this line of "reasoning" used between abuse victims in real life, the people using it were children and teenagers. They were all young, immature, and savagely unhappy. They all needed therapy and some kindness, although in a couple of cases they honestly wouldn't have known what to do with it.
After a certain point, though, people are supposed to develop both empathy and a modicum of common sense. That's about the time that they're supposed to realize it's ALL bad and it's ALL sad and NONE of it should've happened to anyone. Weirdly, though, I've seen this "logic" show up twice recently in mainstream media so it seems to be on the collective unconscious' mind.
But, all of that aside, it's pretty much par for the course for someone to mention JC's past abuse. People have been dredging that up for him since about book 4. Honestly, I'm super impressed with JC for politely discussing it with every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to bring it up, especially since most of them are his past or present abusers. Plus, until recently, everyone and their cousin called him 'catamite' which was both an incorrect use of the word and supposed to be a 'classier' way of calling him a 'whore', I think.