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#has any redeeming qualities the internalized misogyny in her is strong ! ðŸ˜
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not me getting my romanian teacher to read my dark vanessa
#we’re doing enigma otiliei in class and in it one of the main relationships is between a 50 year old man and a 19 year girl bc u quite
#literally cannot escape this when reading romanian classics and she kept going on and on abt how the man is actually such a good guy and one
#of the best in romanian literature (like the bar isn’t on the floor)
#and since im reading my dark vanessa now (almost finished it) i couldn’t help but draw comparisons and i brought it up
#and we talked for a bit abt it me explaining the plot the context of me too in the states when this book was written how grooming works some
#of the themes etc etc
#and she told me today that she found a pdf of the book and she’ll start reading soon and im a bit scared bc while i cant imagine anyone
#walking out of this book thinking in any way that the relationship between strane and vanessa had anything other than abuse or that strane h
#has any redeeming qualities the internalized misogyny in her is strong ! ðŸ˜
#and then theres everything else like how institutions rally around and protect abusive men while throwing girls under the bus how society at
#large views these men and these relationships and the negative connotations the word victim or survivor that makes some women not want to
#associate themselves w those terms the manipulation and the gaslighting specifically using attitudes toward women that already exist such as
#women love victimhood and somehow teenage girls hold power over grown men
#like its all v complicated and so many of the things vanessa tells herself are similar to what ive heard her say in class and idk .
#im interested in the discussion nonetheless
#it makes me cringe a little bc i know the rep this book has on tumblr which ive always found weird bc so much of the book is feeling the
#palpable awkwardness and mundanity but whatever
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