Because the marriages in Eliot are more obviously unhappy than many of those in Austen are or are likely to be a decade on. And because people latch onto the fripperies in Austen instead of the substance.

Plz tell me if you’re being sarcastic so I know whether or not to star you.

Lucky Princess Margaret

i was thinking just this

Yeah I genuinely couldn’t tell which direction the review is pointing us either.

But you can’t be attractive if you’re uninterested in him! The universe would break : o

Driden can die in a fire.

Thank you for getting it, high five back at you! It’s like some parents think that if they can control all the content input to your mind, they can be sure of all the output. But queerness and depression are in my experience usually self-generating, not the result of “inappropriate” input. What you end up deprived of…

Thank you for getting my fundamental point (which is not to say the other respondents haven’t, they definitely have). You articulated the control vs. support issue really well, it really is a tool that can be misused by well-meaning but misguided adults.

Yeah, diaries are 100% off-limits. I feel you so hard on that one. it makes you feel like you can’t even own your own mind.

“upset that I couldn’t read about things I was curious about without Mom popping up behind me” THIS. sometimes you just need to ask weird or awkward questions as part of growing up.

I’m one of the generation who grew up with Internet 2.0 (I’m 22 now) and my parents attempted to pull shit like this in my teens. They were concerned because I wouldn’t talk to them about a) my depression and b) the fact I was queer. I wouldn’t talk to them BECAUSE they were homophobic, controlling and didn’t actually…

Thank you for putting me on to that, i didn’t know it before!

All/any of those would be wonderful!

YES.

Thank you for responding to me so patiently, i was worried i’d been a bit of an arsehole.

What is he supposed to do, pretend not to have the class status that he obviously does/

I don’t believe in banning books, but I also don’t believe in giving awards to something like this. Everything is allowed, but not everything should be applauded.

Firstly, the Night Porter does not condone what was done to Charlotte Rampling’s character during the Holocaust. They are both extremely traumatised people who cannot break free from the relationship that once sustained them. When they try to do so, it ends in disaster. It is an erotic film that makes serious points…

YES. I WOULD STAR THIS X10 IF COULD.