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You know what's [not] great, that the 2019 @nytimes obituary for Johanna Lindsey makes sure to say this: "Stories built around romantic and sexual surrender — between arrogant, willful men and heroines with little power from centuries past — descended at times into rape."
While the 1977 obituary for Nabokov says this, "Intended as a metaphor for the eternal quest for innocence that is resolved in satiric terms, the book sold in the thousands as an erotic story of Dolores Haze, a 12-year-old nymphet... and Humbert Humbert, her middle-aged pursuer.
To which I offer this hearty fuck you to everyone a the New York Times obituary section.

[gif: wonder woman smashing a window labeled patriarchy]
In case you can't get behind the NYTimes paywall. Here's how the obituary manages to handle Lolita as social commentary, 40 years ago, without bothering to understand that Lindsey was doing the same work.
and then later in the obit...
On @FatedMates, we talked with Joanna Shupe about PRISONER OF MY DESIRE, and we all talked about the "rape plot" and how it works, and what Lindsey might have been up to. Listen starting here:

overcast.fm/+PKWS5oTQQ/14:…
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