Humbert Humbert cats

[cj hurtt]

(dreadful siznip)...
>... so, well, any comments?  And cf. also Hedwig
>Vogelsang, et al., in V.; Bianca in Gravity's Rainbow;
>the Vroom daughters (the Vroomettes?) in Mason &
>Dixon; though I don't think Fina in V. and Prairie in
>Vineland are quite "nymphets" in the same way ...

"The active males and the inactive females determine how girls seem when
they are looked
at—on screen the teenage girl is sexualized and made into an image that is
pleasing to
mass culture.  This masculine gaze makes all girls into sex objects and
makes all sex
objects into girls—puffing and primping to look good for the eyes that gaze
throughout
the day.1  It is the same thing that mass culture has done to Vladimir
Nabakov’s character,
Lolita.  Elizabeth Wurtzel explains:  “it seems that in the void created by
Nabakov’s
beautiful, complicated text (lack of reading—not misreading—is the culprit
here), a
cultural version of the game Telephone—with Freudian phantasies and wish
fulfillments
guiding it along—has turned a girl who is the object of perverse desire into
the object of a
rapacious sexual appetite.”  In many ways, this is what culture does to
every girl.
American culture sexualizes all teenage girls in one way or another—in life
and on screen.
In the book, Lolita is subjected only to Humbert’s gaze and Humbert’s
fantasies.  In film
she is subjected to the sexual appetite not of Humbert the pervert, but of
the perverted
manipulation of the Lolita moniker by dominant culture."
-sarah hentches www.theend-times.org
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