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I agree. I know, I know, feminism bla bla bla, but it seemed glaringly obvious to me from the very start that Katniss loathed everything and anything to do with the games, the war, politics, and anything else that would take her away from looking after Prim. I get wanting female characters who stay actively involved in the good of the world they've saved, but Katniss was NEVER a good candidate for that.

It reminds me of a couple of friends of mine who were totally grossed out by Katniss getting into a relationship at all, because they had been wholeheartedly headcanon-ing her as ace. One of them went so far as to accuse Collins of acebaiting. I have to wonder how people so ~socially aware~ read ace Katniss's constant lamentations of being too emotionally damaged and traumatized to love or care for or be vulnerable with anyone, up to and including her own mother, in any way. Last I checked, implying asexuality is the result of trauma is pretty dang acephobic.

* read ace INTO Katniss's constant...

Acebaiting? I don't whether I should be more surprised to hear that that's a thing, or that anyone could suspect The Hunger Games of being an example of it when from the very first book Katniss talks about how fluttery she feels when Peeta kisses her.

Or the makeout scene in the second book with some of the most blunt descriptions of sexual arousal I've ever read in teen fiction.

You think? I thought it was pretty subtle. I've seen a lot worse in YA.

There's nothing that really reads to me as her being Ace. She's a 16 year old in a different, more violent society from ours. We can't really prescribe the same sort of thinking to it.

I think she's not really that into either boy, or that romantically involved, but I always felt that it didn't say anything about her sexuality. More that she was too emotionally wrought and just trying to survive, she loves the boys but hasn't really got the room to be in a romance. She's lucky to have these two boys who are into her, but I quite like that in this story she's not that reciprocal with either of them.

I always viewed her as "just not really having time for this right now got to not die"

Yeah, that whole "trying not to die" thing can be a serious mood killer.

For serious though, this was my take. They're in a war, she's a complete mess, etc. It's not that she's not a sexual being. It's that she has bigger priorities right now.

Which makes me wonder, you think any tributes end up going "fuck it" and screwing in front of the cameras?

I think the Capitol audience was just *waiting* for that to happen with Katniss and Peeta in the first games. And then it didn't. Ha, ha.

We know it happened in Battle Royale, but that was the grimmer universe. The producer practically said "Sex is good ratings hope we get some desperate fucking and/or rapes"

I bet the District One tributes do it sometimes, entirely strategically, but not every year, so the audience doesn't get used to it.

That HAS to happen!--I would be shocked if it never happened, both because death can be an aphrodisiac and as a tactic (I'll distract this person by snogging them whilst my partner kills them or steals their food).

I remember she certainly had idle thoughts about both Gale and Peeta, but then they'd be skipped over in favour of, well, not-dying and saving others priorities...and I recall she was nervous about a couple of the fake kisses but the impression I got was she withdrew from people when traumatised, not seeked them out for physical affection..

And towards the end of the book in the ending-summary-but-not-epilogue-spot I think it took awhile for her to feel comfortable enough to really be with Peeta beyond bed snuggles.

I want to open my book to double check that but I'm in the middle of gardening with dirty hands. :(