[ SECRET POST #2504 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2504 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

For whatever reason, there are people who look at something really rapey and think "this is what love is like." When they talk about it, they talk about it as love, when they write about it, they write about it as love, and conversely, when they try to write about love, they write really rapey stuff. (If you want to inquire into why, there are like a gazillion feminist blogs on the subject--just be warned that some of them are pretty dang creepy in and of themselves.)

[(Anonymous)]

Or, you know, there are people for whom these type of characters/fictional relationships are appealing precisely because they are unhealthy and screwed up and not at all about love.

Personally I've always liked this pairing (particularly in the version pictured) because vampirism is a metaphor for burgeoning female sexuality and its "dangers" and "temptations."

[darkmanifest]

Yeah, I had to accept this a long time ago when I could still tolerate reading romance novels and I just couldn't figure out why so many writers' idea of love looked a lot like sexual assault. And the relationships were almost never represented as "this is so fucked up but let's enjoy the train wreck anyway", but rather "it's so unironically romantic how he bullies, disrespects, outright holds his beloved captive!" It's one thing when people enjoy rape fantasy, but what gets me is when they don't even recognize the difference between rape fantasy and romance.