/a very bad man had forced him to stay in animal form/
A “very bad man?” Is she speaking to a child? Because that’s what it sounds like.
/this makes NOTHING less creepy/
Especially since it’s only NOW that he turns eighteen. She didn’t even wait until then to have a relationship with him. Which, if this book were taking place in reality, would get her slammed for statutory rape already.
/So don't be with him. No one is making you. There's no metaphysical requirements. This is really, really simple./
But he’s so HOT! He’s so young and sexy and Anita simply can’t resist him because he’s so attractive and he wants to have sex with her anyway, he’s so eager to please her – wait, what do you mean that this makes Anita sound like the female equivalent of Humbert Humbert? No, Anita’s not a dirty old man! She’s a sexy woman in her late twenties with a curvy waist and big bust whom all the men want and all the women envy! That makes it TOTALLY different.
/the way Anita keeps complaining as if she *has* to be sexually involved with Cynric just makes no sense/
And comes across as “the lady doth protest too much.” Or LKH trying to have her cake and eat it too: paying lip service to the twisted nature of Anita’s relationship with Cynric while having Anita pursue a relationship with him anyway. I mean, after all, isn’t this the same way that Anita tries to justify the ardeur? Oh, she didn’t really want to have sex with that hot guy, but she "had" to because the ardeur said so. She simply "had" to have sex with Joseph, a married man, or her loved ones would be doomed, which is why it’s perfectly acceptable for her to order a hit on him and his family for turning her down. Monica spoke the truth when she said, “Funny how it’s never your fault, Anita.”
/just rubbing salt in my already wounded sense of self."/
“Wounded sense of self?” Oh, is that what they call self-pitying-but-doing-nothing-to-stop-doing-what’s-wrong nowadays? Is that the new code word for how pedophiles and ephebophiles rationalize their behavior?
/"I was the grown-up; I'd behave like it." THIS PHRASE IS ALL THE CREEPY WHEN YOU CONSIDERING SHE'S FUCKING HIM/
This is another reason why a lot of people view May-December relationships between teenagers (even of-age teenagers) and older adults as creepy. Because, yes, there are adult May-December relationships with a huge age gap where both people behave as if there isn’t because they’re adults and have around the same level of maturity or interests. But a relationship where one of the partners attends the other’s PTA meeting and reminds herself that she, and only she, is the grown-up in this relationship? Umm, no.
/She says she loves him to but tells us she's not sure if it's true/
So, she lied to him. What a surprise.
/she's fucking a teen because she has to (for no specified reason) but she's not in love with him, she knows it's wrong see!"/
Uh, no, that just makes it worse. Because a lot of people who defend extreme May-December relationships like this often use the excuse that “the heart wants who it wants” and sometimes people just fall in love with a certain person, and the older person really does love the younger person, etc. Basically, love is what’s used to justify the relationship. Anita has just admitted that she doesn’t love Cynric. Therefore, any possible justification for her relationship with him has now been rendered null and void. She doesn’t love him, so why is she boinking a teenager? How does that make her any different from any other ephebophile?
/Micah: I know, and I love you more./
Oh, no, it’s Anakin and Padmé’s “I’m so in love with you” dialogue from “Revenge of the Sith!” D:
/"He shouldn't have to compromise for a relationship that got him great sex"/
And there LKH commits a Freudian slip. In the midst of all of this phony breast-beating about how Cynric deserves someone else, Anita naturally has to mention that she gives him great sex, which completely deflates her pretense at guilt. See, naysayers, there is a benefit for Cynric in this relationship! He gets great sex! That’s totally worth Anita exploiting him and sleeping with him for his body. That totally makes this relationship legitimate and right.
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A “very bad man?” Is she speaking to a child? Because that’s what it sounds like.
/this makes NOTHING less creepy/
Especially since it’s only NOW that he turns eighteen. She didn’t even wait until then to have a relationship with him. Which, if this book were taking place in reality, would get her slammed for statutory rape already.
/So don't be with him. No one is making you. There's no metaphysical requirements. This is really, really simple./
But he’s so HOT! He’s so young and sexy and Anita simply can’t resist him because he’s so attractive and he wants to have sex with her anyway, he’s so eager to please her – wait, what do you mean that this makes Anita sound like the female equivalent of Humbert Humbert? No, Anita’s not a dirty old man! She’s a sexy woman in her late twenties with a curvy waist and big bust whom all the men want and all the women envy! That makes it TOTALLY different.
/the way Anita keeps complaining as if she *has* to be sexually involved with Cynric just makes no sense/
And comes across as “the lady doth protest too much.” Or LKH trying to have her cake and eat it too: paying lip service to the twisted nature of Anita’s relationship with Cynric while having Anita pursue a relationship with him anyway. I mean, after all, isn’t this the same way that Anita tries to justify the ardeur? Oh, she didn’t really want to have sex with that hot guy, but she "had" to because the ardeur said so. She simply "had" to have sex with Joseph, a married man, or her loved ones would be doomed, which is why it’s perfectly acceptable for her to order a hit on him and his family for turning her down. Monica spoke the truth when she said, “Funny how it’s never your fault, Anita.”
/just rubbing salt in my already wounded sense of self."/
“Wounded sense of self?” Oh, is that what they call self-pitying-but-doing-nothing-to-stop-doing-what’s-wrong nowadays? Is that the new code word for how pedophiles and ephebophiles rationalize their behavior?
/"I was the grown-up; I'd behave like it." THIS PHRASE IS ALL THE CREEPY WHEN YOU CONSIDERING SHE'S FUCKING HIM/
This is another reason why a lot of people view May-December relationships between teenagers (even of-age teenagers) and older adults as creepy. Because, yes, there are adult May-December relationships with a huge age gap where both people behave as if there isn’t because they’re adults and have around the same level of maturity or interests. But a relationship where one of the partners attends the other’s PTA meeting and reminds herself that she, and only she, is the grown-up in this relationship? Umm, no.
/She says she loves him to but tells us she's not sure if it's true/
So, she lied to him. What a surprise.
/she's fucking a teen because she has to (for no specified reason) but she's not in love with him, she knows it's wrong see!"/
Uh, no, that just makes it worse. Because a lot of people who defend extreme May-December relationships like this often use the excuse that “the heart wants who it wants” and sometimes people just fall in love with a certain person, and the older person really does love the younger person, etc. Basically, love is what’s used to justify the relationship. Anita has just admitted that she doesn’t love Cynric. Therefore, any possible justification for her relationship with him has now been rendered null and void. She doesn’t love him, so why is she boinking a teenager? How does that make her any different from any other ephebophile?
/Micah: I know, and I love you more./
Oh, no, it’s Anakin and Padmé’s “I’m so in love with you” dialogue from “Revenge of the Sith!” D:
/"He shouldn't have to compromise for a relationship that got him great sex"/
And there LKH commits a Freudian slip. In the midst of all of this phony breast-beating about how Cynric deserves someone else, Anita naturally has to mention that she gives him great sex, which completely deflates her pretense at guilt. See, naysayers, there is a benefit for Cynric in this relationship! He gets great sex! That’s totally worth Anita exploiting him and sleeping with him for his body. That totally makes this relationship legitimate and right.