PSA: Lolis and You

Jun 11, 2007 19:25

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supiluliumas June 12 2007, 00:22:06 UTC
... Isn't Shermie like, mid-20s?

At any rate, the standard treatise on the sexualization of young girls is actually the novel Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. The great Nabokov also coined the phraseology for this subculture, which unfortunately is lost to most modern audiences since they're more than happy to use his title, just not his terminology.

As such, the term 'Lolita' is only a nickname for the lead female character of the novel. The technical term for, as you and J-pop culture describe them, 'Lolitas', is actually 'nymphet' (there's also a term for a nymphet's male counterpart, a 'faunlet', in the way that the mythological fauns were counterparts to the nymphs; an example of someone attracted to faunlets is Asahina Mutsuki from 'Haunted Junction', who in he anime is described as having a 'reverse-Lolita-complex ( ... )

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thehorde June 12 2007, 00:30:18 UTC
You know, you sure can take the fun out of things.

Admittedly, I came across that damned book while I was looking for appropriate adjectives. I don't care what the ravings of a sick man are, I quite prefer my definition of lolita and will make sure people know how awful they are. I mean, the whole thing is just crazy.

But! All nympholepts are pedos, and I think we can all agree that pedos are nasty, nasty creatures.

And yeah, Shermie's in her 20s, that's why her arrow isn't in the lolita or adolescent sections of the diagram.

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supiluliumas June 12 2007, 08:49:29 UTC
You know, you sure can take the fun out of things.

Except for the perverse fun I might derive from taking the fun out of things for others.

Anyway, Nabokov was a master stylist of the English language, and his four volume translation of Alexander Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin is considered the benchmark translation of Pushkin's work in the English language. If there is ANYONE more qualified than he to discuss with objectivity and erudition the subject of underage sexual activity, it is HE, sir. To any who dare to claim that crown, I say, where's YOUR four-volume translation of Pushkin? Even, say, a quickie proof-copy of Andrei Belyanin's "Three Short Stories I Tried to Unload for a Fast Kopek"? Riddle me THAT, Batman!

All nympholepts are pedos, and I think we can all agree that pedos are nasty, nasty creatures.From what little study has been accomplished in this admittedly highly esoteric and emotionally charged field, some suggest that the 'nympholept' doesn't fall into the same category as a pedophiliac. As opposed to a person ( ... )

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gearhead June 12 2007, 02:42:16 UTC
Seven Seas actually going to call 'The Child From Hell' that (Nymphet) until the person in charge of acquisition sat down, looked at what came after the first coupe of chapters in the comic and went 'WOAH, not publishing this!'

Another fine example of what happens when people pick up properties at random based on internet traffic.

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thehorde June 12 2007, 00:31:19 UTC
Lolita fashion is different, but not necessarily separate from lolita sexuality. :( I...you're kind of safe, but you still can't enter my place in it!

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ashchan June 13 2007, 02:16:21 UTC
Are there any good lolitas, Professor Fawn? :oa

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thehorde June 13 2007, 12:50:03 UTC
Not a one. 'Lolita' is a term to be used in a derogatory fashion to begin with, not to be applied to good, wholesome people. :(

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