They just can't stand the thought of someone ELSE getting them. It's that nasty dog-in-the-manger thing, real or perceived in the mind of the 'possessor' that seems to be so fashionable and "romantic" at the moment.
I think that Anita thinks that the men >owe her for allowing some other woman to take, and worse keep, them away from her. To Anita's thinking, she might otherwise have had those men, even if those women met those men before Anita did and even if those men didn't want Anita. (Remember 'weak' Joseph and his unreasonable wife?) I'd actually go a step further than you and say that it's an unstated fact in the series that Anita sees herself as the only woman any man should look at, even if he prefers men and she's not into him at all. (They should just chastely pine for her, dammit!) Because Anita is confident that she's everyone's type, she assumes at some level that all the men (gay or straight) are hers. They've got to let Anita squash them under foot and pay the (sexual) tithe or be raped - physically, mentally, and magically - and have their agency taken away.
Domino... was totally lying about being a hybrid in order to get Anita's sympathy! I WOULD LOVE THAT!
And she has on silver stilettos and a silver dress too, if you care, I actually do care because I think that that was exactly the same outfit that Envy had on. (I remember the shoes at least.) And she fulfilled the exact same role in the narrative as Envy - an inferior woman for Anita to be compared and found superior to. I think clothes tell you a lot about a character - or they should, at any rate - and in this case, Envy & Julia's clothes tell me a LOT about LKH and their status as disposable, cardboard cutout women within the narrative.
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It's that nasty dog-in-the-manger thing, real or perceived in the mind of the 'possessor' that seems to be so fashionable and "romantic" at the moment.
I think that Anita thinks that the men >owe her for allowing some other woman to take, and worse keep, them away from her. To Anita's thinking, she might otherwise have had those men, even if those women met those men before Anita did and even if those men didn't want Anita. (Remember 'weak' Joseph and his unreasonable wife?) I'd actually go a step further than you and say that it's an unstated fact in the series that Anita sees herself as the only woman any man should look at, even if he prefers men and she's not into him at all. (They should just chastely pine for her, dammit!) Because Anita is confident that she's everyone's type, she assumes at some level that all the men (gay or straight) are hers. They've got to let Anita squash them under foot and pay the (sexual) tithe or be raped - physically, mentally, and magically - and have their agency taken away.
Domino... was totally lying about being a hybrid in order to get Anita's sympathy! I WOULD LOVE THAT!
And she has on silver stilettos and a silver dress too, if you care,
I actually do care because I think that that was exactly the same outfit that Envy had on. (I remember the shoes at least.) And she fulfilled the exact same role in the narrative as Envy - an inferior woman for Anita to be compared and found superior to. I think clothes tell you a lot about a character - or they should, at any rate - and in this case, Envy & Julia's clothes tell me a LOT about LKH and their status as disposable, cardboard cutout women within the narrative.