• Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Although I haven’t read Lolita myself I recently came across a great video explaining how many people misunderstand the book as being some sort of tragic romance. LOLITA: The Worst Masterpiece

    It’s ironic that one of the most famous and successful writers in the world made this same mistake of trusting and sympathizing with the pedophilic murderer protagonist while claiming that she wants to protect women and children from the evil trans agenda or whatever.

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      5 months ago

      I haven’t read the book either but I heard this Lolita podcast series and it was a great breakdown about how it was misinterpreted. I couldn’t believe everything I knew about it from mainstream media was off.

      Will definitely be checking out your video!

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        5 months ago

        Jamie Loftus’ Lolita podcast? She’s AMAZING. I love when she* is a guest on Behind the Bastards too!

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          5 months ago

          Jamie being a unisex name, I dunno if “she’s amazing” is the typo or “he is a guest” is.

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                5 months ago

                Thank you, much love. It’s looking promising. About 2k USD more than our highest expectations though before we took him in @c@

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