Fairy Tales, and More Thoughts on Assault

[jimhines]

Warning -- I've got a sick kid at home, and have gotten very little sleep for the past 3-4 days. If this is incoherent, you know why.

I've been doing a lot with fairy tales lately. In addition to the CatsCurious Faery Tale project, there's also The Stepsister Scheme and the current novel-in-progress, The Mermaid's Madness. I also did a short

Comments

[sapience]

I just find it strange and depressing how well this centuries-old tale fits today.

Agreed. However, threads like the ones you've been hosting here in your journal give me hope. They provide opportunities for people who normally don't participate in discussions on this topic to hear the perspectives of victims and advocates, and to expand their understanding of what can make people feel sexually violated. And I hope that by spreading understanding, more people will think about what they're doing before the incident, so that it won't happen at all.

When I posted a snippet of my comment to one of your earlier posts in another discussion, I was given a startling example* of the sort of attitude that hinders the subtlety of understanding we need. I would love to see some fiction (or other art) come out of all this that would help reach people such as this, who are having trouble hearing the message.

* PSA: Link is for illustrative purposes only. Sticking one's hand in the crazy not recommended.

[sapience]

Sorry about your headache! If it makes you feel any better, the discussion over there seems to have clarified some, and seems much more reasonable than it did initially. I'm still not sticking my hand in (Your icon choice gave me a good giggle, btw!), but at least it doesn't seem quite as corrosive anymore.

[jimhines]

Fighting the urge to poke the crazy

[sapience]

I, too, was surprised at the angry, aggressive, black-and-white response. In a follow-up post asking if readers knew anyone who had been falsely accused of rape, he responded that he knew several people who had been falsely accused, so perhaps that's why he reacted so strongly