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i can’t believe how many young teens i come across on this site who romanticise lolita and who fetishize the fetishization of young girls, like themselves.
if you finish lolita and haven’t understood that nabokov intended you to feel disgust with both the content and with yourself (if you at any point sympathised with the narrator) then you’ve completely misunderstood the point of the novel.
don’t you understand that the story of lolita is about a mentally ill pedophile who psychologically manipulates and sexually assaults a young child repeatedly? and don’t you understand that you’ve fallen directly into the trap of the novel, which is written deliberately in the most beautiful first person prose, so that you too, start to view lolita as an object of desire and admiration? don’t you understand that each time you do that, you are repeatedly viewing lolita through the eyes of a sexual predator? don’t you understand that that same predatory eye is deliberately normalised throughout the prose of the novel, so that you are cajoled into viewing humbert humbert’s desire for lolita, as not only natural - but something to be viewed degree of empathy and understanding?
the novel is written with the express intent of seducing and convincing the reader that there is nothing untoward about the narrator’s sexual desire for a child. if that thought hasn’t crossed your mind then you’ve simply read the book wrong. lolita was not written with the intention of glorifying sexual domination, or romanticising the ‘naughty little girl vs. daddy’ dynamic. it’s a book that aims to expose how insidious and pervasive the corruption of language, rhetoric and discourse can be, on any given topic.
the fact that there is such a widespread misunderstanding of this novel is a testament to that fact. through language and rhetoric alone, nabokov was able to transform the story of lolita - which is filled with rape, pedophilia and murder - into that of a ‘love story’ that young girls completely idealise and romanticise to this day.
stop preteens from reading lolita without proper guidance and misunderstanding the point of the novel. stop preteens from internalizing and normalising a warped and delusional conception of what it means to love and be loved.
lolita is one of my all-time favorite novels and this explains the rationale behind that pretty succinctly. it’s disappointing to say the least that the work is so persistently misinterpreted…not only for the case stated above (perpetuating a misinformed, problematic trope), but also because it means that the artistry behind such expertly-spun, beautiful, and manipulative prose is lost to so many people
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As an introvert, the best thing is finding someone who it isn’t draining to spend time with
It’s interesting trying to explain to people who don’t experience social exhaustion that there are some people who are less draining than others and then their are those who are mind numbingly exhausting. All socializing is not equal
After British Prime Minister David Cameron blamed ISIS recruitment on “traditionally submissive” Muslim women and mothers who don’t speak out against radical Islamism, Muslim women are firing back on Twitter. One tweet, featuring Darth Vader (really), was particularly funny and insightful.
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