Reading Lolita in Patriarchy

December 17, 2015 11:42 AM

So much of feminism has been women speaking up about hitherto unacknowledged experiences, and so much of antifeminism has been men telling them these things don’t happen. “You were not just raped,” your rapist may say, and then if you persist there may be death threats, because killing people is the easy way to be the only voice in the room. Non-white people get much the same rubbish about how there isn’t racism and they don’t get treated differently and race doesn’t affect any of us, because who knows better than white people who are trying to silence people of color? - Men explain Lolita to me
posted by palegirl (2 comments total)

I've seen a whole lot of coverage of Lolita recently. Is there a reason for this, or is it just Baader-Meinhof on my part?
posted by Spinda at 12:07 PM on December 17, 2015

60th anniversary perhaps?
posted by bonehead at 12:10 PM on December 17, 2015