Reading "Forever" as an adult is horrific when you put yourself into the position of Michael, the young male teenager that the female protagonist has sex with and she then cheats on a few weeks later while she's at camp. Michael is actually in love with her. That's what sex does to you as a young man, for all the portrayal of men as treating sex as something casual, it's a sure way of triggering bonding in the male brain. And she dumps him, callously. Just so she can jump on the next cock.
A book normalising girls treating boys as disposable, to be fucked and dumped based on a change in mood. Portrayed as model for young women to "liberate" themselves from the sexual restrictions of the "patriarchy". As if men treating women as a disposable was ever a virtue under this so-called "patriarchy", yet for feminists that's a virtue.
Judy Blume was jewish.
Reading "Forever" as an adult is horrific when you put yourself into the position of Michael, the young male teenager that the female protagonist has sex with and she then cheats on a few weeks later while she's at camp. Michael is actually in love with her. That's what sex does to you as a young man, for all the portrayal of men as treating sex as something casual, it's a sure way of triggering bonding in the male brain. And she dumps him, callously. Just so she can jump on the next cock.
A book normalising girls treating boys as disposable, to be fucked and dumped based on a change in mood. Portrayed as model for young women to "liberate" themselves from the sexual restrictions of the "patriarchy". As if men treating women as a disposable was ever a virtue under this so-called "patriarchy", yet for feminists that's a virtue.
Always another exhausting cohencidence.