@Holly Green: Is this the same writer who had voodoo shamans in Mali tell her that MJ had 42 cows slaughtered to curse Steven Spielberg?

@thePrototype: I had gotten that impression just from reading transcripts and stuff. :(

@pursedangler: but... why? What do you know that we don't?

@boxspelunker: I get you. I have that right now with one of my flatmates, where I've never clicked with a guy this much. But I'm bored of being single, so sometimes I start thinkin, "wouldn't it just be so CONVENIENT if I was attracted to him!"

@ptarmigan: I really think it's meant to be a threat, like trying to humiliate you and demonstrating that power they'll always have over you, idk. So sick, and that it's so... commonplace is pretty scary.

lol I love over-analysing literature. The inner-workings of prose is not boring. Now I feel alone in this.

@perdue: Yes! Tim Burton only wishes to be this effortlessly creepy.

@aerie avian: True. I just meant to say they are products of their environment, and assumed that the harmful messages we are hit with every day (sweet passivity and helplessness in girls!) were being reinforced at home. If your parents are complicit with the dominant view outside the home, maybe you don't really stand…

@MsFab: I was going to agree, but so many girls on this show are similar it seems to be a symptom of something larger. They were not raised to know how to say "no" or set their own terms or really value themselves. This is what happens if you grow up never being forced to question the "culture" that is being shoved…

All the "nice" girls on this show never were taught how to set boundaries for themselves. Sure, you can fuck me without a condom. Fine, I'll stay pregnant. (as if he actually cares? It just makes him feel like a "man" for you to have to have his baby.) Don't worry, you can treat me like shit, I'll put up with it. Yes,…

I can't imagine the mind of someone who would treating a person like an object. Maybe my view is skewed because I know that if I was the girl I would be crying of awkwardness and humiliation.

@egg cream: Hmm. Maybe it's just circulation then. Interesting.

I think sometimes it's also genetic, something about blood pressure or bad circulation. Me and my dad both have ice hands and feet (in my case, up to my knees,) and my mother laughs at us. :(

When I was in elementary school I read everything I could get my hands on. My parents had no idea what I was reading, and some books disturbed me, scared me, confused me, but I think that's a good thing. I hate this idea you need to dumb things down for kids and shield them from everything unpleasant. How else do you…

@SandyEggRoll: I notice this too. And the way girls in class speak up is more often "I feel like..." or "Personally..." instead of making direct assertions.

@greydove: No, I know. I just criticised the covers that show Lolita as a cheesy and unambiguous seductress because that is misleading to the point of missing the point.

@14Kgold: Definitely true, I just think it's worse here. Britney was marketed at least as being willing - you can be her first and live out your weird fantasies of power, but she wants you to. Humbert makes it so clear that Lolita happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and that she feels nothing but…

@CupCakeExtender: This is excellent. :)

@greydove: No, I agree. That's what makes the book so genius to me, it's so sick but so engrossing, I couldn't put it down. But you are not supposed to side with him. He admits to being sick, admits to rape, admits to wanting to have daughters with her so he can molest them when Lolita gets too old, and STILL people…

@Cimorene: Seriously. It makes me so furious. She is 12, both her parents are dead, and she has no idea what else to do but trust him. It is such a classic case of child abuse for him to step in and take advantage of this.