*Lolita

[Dana]

After Joe Knepper's firm concurrence (no pun intended) with
Jules' motion that 12/13 year olds can be and are, in a lot of cases,
little nymphets, I would like another word or two.
a) I was a 13 year old girl once and it sucked.  People may view a
  girl as   sexually ready/available/interested/interesting, but the girl has
really  no idea what is happening to her in this transition (becoming-woman)
period (with a firm pun on period).
b) speaking of "becoming-woman," I quote those authors of the
fake Italian wedding handbook, Deleuze and Guattari (authors
of the other work, Thousand Plateaus) on the matter of being a girl.
As they say, girlhood is a denied zone.   And it seems that what
I'm hearing from these (male) posters is a definition of whether being
a girl or a woman depends on the filters of their own perceptions of her
(whether or not it's o.k. to follow through on the definition)
But:      What about what the lil nymphet herself thinks?
To quote Deleuze and Guattari (276):
"the most phallocratic [writers] tap into and emit particles that enter the
proximity or zone of indiscernibility of women.  In writing, they become-
women.  The question is not, or not only, that of the organism, history,
and the subject of enunciation that oppose masculine to feminine in the
great dualism machines.  The question is fundamentally that of the body--the
body they STEAL from us in order to fabricate opposable organisms.



This body is stolen first from the girl:  Stop behaving like that, you're
not a girl anymore, you're not a tomboy, etc.  The girl's becoming
is stolen first, in order to impose a history, or prehistory, upon her.
The boy's turn comes next, but it is by using the girl as an example, by
pointing to the girl as the object of his desire, that an opposed
organism, a dominant history is fabricated for him too.
The girl is the first victim, but she must also serve as an example and a trap.
...
The girl is certainly not defined by virginity; she is defined by
a relation of movement and rest, speed and slowness, by a combination of



atoms..."

So, in defense of Dolores Haze (although Jules did write
me privately, making it quite clear that he thinks Humbert
Humbert is a Bad Guy, and although Joe repudiates predatory Humberts)
--"a girl's becoming is stolen first".
Dana