alice through the looking glass by moon香奈 ₊˚⊹♡
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[pouring myself a drink from a fancy pitcher] so like it’s simplifying to the point of uselessness to say ‘reading comprehension’ is why people say shit like ‘lolita is problematic!’ because clearly the salient points to consider what aren’t they comprehending and why? and i think it probably lies in an unwillingness to approach critically the cultural understanding of ‘the child predator’ as someone that exists wholly outside society, someone who is an obviously deviant Other that enters from the fringes in order to commit terrible crimes--and so when nabokov puts those crimes into the person of a well-spoken, well-read, ‘respectable’ family man, they respond by saying ’well, this must be a favorable portrayal of child abuse, putting its justifications in the mouth of someone so authoritative and respectable is obviously apologetics’--because they’re unable or unwilling to critically confront the actual idea presented here, that ‘the child predator’ exists within society and is in fact often enabled and abetted by society.
humbert anchoring his attraction to children in the mythology and literature of the Western Canon says, ‘this is embedded in our culture, these are not the acts of an Otherized interloper’--but if you cannot put yourself at a critical distance and dispel the myth of that interloper of course you will read that and say ‘well since all these things are self-evidently good and cannot be the sites of violence, tying humbert to them is nabokov inviting this deviant external evil into the fold of what’s good and accepted’. when of course the call has been coming from inside the house! the entire time!
[i take a sip of my drink--fruity, airy, with hints of earth] so yeah ig to talk seriously about the dynamics of abuse we need to divorce ourselves entirely from the discursive fiction of the ‘child abuser’ as a marginal figure so that we can honestly assess how abuse can be reproduced in the key pillars of our culture and society. but that’s hard so let’s all keep arguing about a vague notion of ‘reading comprehension’ until the earth explodes amen brother [i pour you a drikn from my pitcher and it’s just room temperature coca cola]
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I wore this coord to remotely sit in on one of the lolibrary panels during kei-con!!
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OP & Hat ~ Psyche Manie
Gloves ~ Busted Brand
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♱ Immortals Gothic Stained Glass Printed
(2017)
by AcYutHorizon
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The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
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White rabbit themed coord for glass bottle of tears.
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from my comms picnic meetup 🧺
skirt: atelier pierrot
blouse: vallee lys
corset: antigones majoh
choker: antique beasT
necklace: neant glass
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Casual tea coord
OP: Victorian Maiden
Socks: The Black Ribbon
Shoes: Steve Madden
Headdress: Antique Beast
Necklace: Néant Glass
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