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That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audience (medium.com)

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nabokov's Lolita really shouldn't be pigeonholed as merely that, but I guess the movies are another story.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It certainly shouldn't, but i was talking about the men who misinterpret the book a bit into some sort of love story, and not a creepy unreliable narrator who is trying to convince you he is really the victim here.

E: And don't get me wrong, I don't think 'young person discovers their sexuality and comes to grips with it' is something that should be banned from books or something, it is just annoying to me that so many books have the ~14 year old girls, written by a man, girl gets heavily sexualized by older men (or worse goes for much older man, bonus points if the guy is actually a writer (this is uncommon of course as that is quite specific)), pattern. It feels a bit like creepy wish fulfillment. At my book club we had a period where we noticed that every book we read for a while had the sexualized ~14 year old problem.