Also, is it just me or does she sound almost mad about the way he looks, like she thinks he's doing it on purpose to try to make her feel bad and she's not having it?
She's sounded like that since she described the first one of these vampires, I think.
Hey y'all, let's play a game, how about you tell me in the comments about all the men you know who are just fine with talking about emotions whenever?
I don't know any human being who is okay with talking about their emotions whenever. I've known plenty of men who were fine with discussing their emotions, and some women who weren't. Actually, I've known more men who were happy to discuss their emotions than women, now that I think of it. Women are socialized to keep quiet, get along, put themselves last, do what makes other people happy, etc., none of which is conducive to talking about one's emotions.
But in this case, thinking about quizzing someone else on his personal emotions is completely out of place. Anita should be the one being quizzed about her emotions -- by a psychiatrist she was sent to for evaluation. Though actually she should be arrested. Well, she should have been arrested a long time ago.
She also mentions how she got some frown lines but has been turning them into smile lines over the last few years
Isn't Anita about 30? How does she have lines around her mouth in the first place? Even more, how has she had lines for enough years to be turning them into anything? This is more evidence that LKH writes Anita as herself, period. And btw, a 30-year old woman with visible lines around her mouth -- frown lines no less! -- is probably not going to have every man she meets falling at her feet about how she's the most beautiful woman who has ever existed. I will be honestly surprised if we aren't subjected to Anita going through menopause in a few years, at the age of 32.
Re: the good guy/bad guy thing -- LKH is one of many people who does not realize that you don't get to be a "good guy" simply because you're in opposition to "bad guys". The easiest example is that Stalin wasn't good simply because he opposed Hitler. But leaders consistently use the "they're bad guys!" excuse for unjust wars and/or unjust things during wars. (America's done it plenty, including during WWII.) On a smaller scale, it's the excuse of victim-blamers of every stripe. Somehow, you deserved it, so it's justified that horrible things happen to you, and if people do horrible things to you, they're not bad.
He says that he won't torture someone and he won't kill if he doesn't have to, Anita asks even if those morals cost hundreds of lives
Beyond the morality of this, Anita is an idiot. And LKH is an idiot if she thinks this makes Anita anything but an idiot. Torture does not work. LKH did all her research by watching 24, apparently. Plenty of our leaders are also idiots in the same way, but that doesn't excuse LKH's own willful ignorance. Not to mention that she revels in it. Oh, Anita just ~has~ to torture people, she has no ~choice~ because she's so ~badass~. Yeah, so badass she started a massacre of unarmed civilians because they dared to look like middle-class suburbanites.
"Good that we have me here, then, so I can be evil, because I'd rather cut up the bodies, terrify the prisoners, than have to see one more grieving family, or explain to anyone why these bloodsuckers killed again, because we were too good, too righteous to get the information we needed."
Those vampires have families too. How would Anita feel if someone carved up Jean-Claude in front of her in order to get information out of her? Then they'd be the monster because they were doing something horrible to someone she supposedly cares about. But she doesn't want to fuck these vampires, so I guess they're just "bloodsuckers" and you can do anything you want to them and it doesn't matter. She's like a soldier who will do absolutely anything to the enemy and think he's good for it, but who has a mistress who belongs to the same people as his enemy, and she's his special pet and no one better hurt her because she's his.
The amount of fucks I give about Anita's ~pain~ over this is infinity inverted.
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Date: 2013-12-30 10:08 pm (UTC)She's sounded like that since she described the first one of these vampires, I think.
Hey y'all, let's play a game, how about you tell me in the comments about all the men you know who are just fine with talking about emotions whenever?
I don't know any human being who is okay with talking about their emotions whenever. I've known plenty of men who were fine with discussing their emotions, and some women who weren't. Actually, I've known more men who were happy to discuss their emotions than women, now that I think of it. Women are socialized to keep quiet, get along, put themselves last, do what makes other people happy, etc., none of which is conducive to talking about one's emotions.
But in this case, thinking about quizzing someone else on his personal emotions is completely out of place. Anita should be the one being quizzed about her emotions -- by a psychiatrist she was sent to for evaluation. Though actually she should be arrested. Well, she should have been arrested a long time ago.
She also mentions how she got some frown lines but has been turning them into smile lines over the last few years
Isn't Anita about 30? How does she have lines around her mouth in the first place? Even more, how has she had lines for enough years to be turning them into anything? This is more evidence that LKH writes Anita as herself, period. And btw, a 30-year old woman with visible lines around her mouth -- frown lines no less! -- is probably not going to have every man she meets falling at her feet about how she's the most beautiful woman who has ever existed. I will be honestly surprised if we aren't subjected to Anita going through menopause in a few years, at the age of 32.
Re: the good guy/bad guy thing -- LKH is one of many people who does not realize that you don't get to be a "good guy" simply because you're in opposition to "bad guys". The easiest example is that Stalin wasn't good simply because he opposed Hitler. But leaders consistently use the "they're bad guys!" excuse for unjust wars and/or unjust things during wars. (America's done it plenty, including during WWII.) On a smaller scale, it's the excuse of victim-blamers of every stripe. Somehow, you deserved it, so it's justified that horrible things happen to you, and if people do horrible things to you, they're not bad.
He says that he won't torture someone and he won't kill if he doesn't have to, Anita asks even if those morals cost hundreds of lives
Beyond the morality of this, Anita is an idiot. And LKH is an idiot if she thinks this makes Anita anything but an idiot. Torture does not work. LKH did all her research by watching 24, apparently. Plenty of our leaders are also idiots in the same way, but that doesn't excuse LKH's own willful ignorance. Not to mention that she revels in it. Oh, Anita just ~has~ to torture people, she has no ~choice~ because she's so ~badass~. Yeah, so badass she started a massacre of unarmed civilians because they dared to look like middle-class suburbanites.
"Good that we have me here, then, so I can be evil, because I'd rather cut up the bodies, terrify the prisoners, than have to see one more grieving family, or explain to anyone why these bloodsuckers killed again, because we were too good, too righteous to get the information we needed."
Those vampires have families too. How would Anita feel if someone carved up Jean-Claude in front of her in order to get information out of her? Then they'd be the monster because they were doing something horrible to someone she supposedly cares about. But she doesn't want to fuck these vampires, so I guess they're just "bloodsuckers" and you can do anything you want to them and it doesn't matter. She's like a soldier who will do absolutely anything to the enemy and think he's good for it, but who has a mistress who belongs to the same people as his enemy, and she's his special pet and no one better hurt her because she's his.
The amount of fucks I give about Anita's ~pain~ over this is infinity inverted.
Hah!