@nellicat: "Underage sex" is a social construct - what is "underage" in one culture may not be in another culture.
@gingerkhan: "But still, so many girls and women fall through the cracks."
@Artful Slinger: And that attitude makes my conservative ass ask why must we compare different versions of Hell? One person's intense suffering does not negate another's.
Wow, the number of women on this thread who are in complete denial of their moms' crazy abusive ways is really scary.
@Gretchen: How can you expect your daughter to feel that she looks normal when her own mother keeps calling her 'exotic'?
But who decides if somebody is a genius or not?
@philoclea: Teens do have sexual desires. That's not the issue, really. It's that male teens get their sexual desires fulfilled a lot more than female teens do. And male teens are not mocked and derided for having sexual desires, and working to fulfil them, to the same extent that female teens do. And female teens,…
I don't know if it is so much teens are sexual beings as much as it is teen girls are desperate to sexually please teen boys.
I think what the reviewer is trying to say is that like all forms of abuse and violation and evil, rape too has degrees of horror and evil. All too often, white middle-class liberals are immune to the extent of their privilege and overidentify with suffering that is so horrific that it sounds made up.
@stoprobbers: Yes and just as much you condone appalling misogyny from a supposedly great writer because you value intellectualism, so too wealthy conservatives condone appalling misogyny from a supposedly great corporate leader because they value money.
And if we're going to refuse to bow down to those pesky PC types who want to disparage the magnificence of Naipaul's work, how about extending that courtesy to ALL misogynist male achievers, not just the intellectual ones we happen to identify with?
If a woman writer beat up her girlfriends and partners, and called small babies ugly, and mocked women for being stupid, how many of us would say "oh but she is SUCH a great writer."?
@beastybeatsy: Are you serious??? You're actually defending the actions of some nutty power-crazed fucks in invading a foreign land, brutalizing the people there, pillaging and robbing that land and stealing other people's money, bringing it back to the home country as tribute for some snotty monarch and imposing a…
@inchworm,@Miss.Sarah: Oh definitely, the phenomenon of feeling an intense attraction to a long-lost close relative is fascinating. I think that does warrant plenty of investigation, discussion and research.
I don't get why this has become a discussion on confronting needless societal taboos like incest. We're not talking cousins crushing on each other here. Isn't this about a creep who not only wants to fuck his own daughter but then somehow went ahead and did it? Isn't this about a sick perv pretending to be a hero and…
@dearcoquette: Are you saying that a guy who wants to fuck his daughter is as entitled to act on his wants as a guy who wants to fuck another guy ?
I have no problem with being judgmental on this one. Disgusting. And that dad has a serious case of pedo-face. I can't believe how evil one has to be to have sexual feelings for one's own child and then ACT ON THEM. And daughter: I wonder how you'd like it when your devilspawn dad-hubby wants to diddle his…
You see women who are sexy and funny on TV because the straight man's parameters of what constitutes sexiness have changed: before it was being ladylike and uptight while still not-fat and not-plain-looking. Now uptightness and seriousness has considerably lost its previous skyhigh value on the fuckability index,…
@That_little_attention_whore: Some people might be sympathetic and kind, they might be in a minority. But judging from the sheer millions of rape victims and their friends and family members and the anger and outrage just from this site, I wouldn't be so sure that the ONLY people who would be sympathetic and kind…