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http://rthstewart.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] rthstewart.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rthstewart 2010-01-22 05:25 am (UTC)

Thanks, LARM. Twilight was one of the offenders I had in mind. In truth, there are a lot of gushy Susan/Caspian stories out there, and I can't say that I read that many of them. Caspian is not always the rapist (sometimes it's Peter or Rabadash) and with Susan eventually enjoying her assailant. This is the same model that plays over and over in Twilight fic, to be sure. It's a popular formula in the romance genre generally. The more I think of what is done to Susan the more troubling it is. Stories usually don't write her with Peter -- I suspect because authors are worried about creating subtext. Even the adult Susan is constantly portrayed in ambiguous situations. Or, she is, of course, fallen, in the state of apostasy and cast out from Eden.

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