Indeed. It's almost as if they're only worried about unhealthy messages to teenage girls when the messages in question are ones the girls might enjoy.
Also, someone whose reading tastes I know and trust read them, partly out of curiosity and partly out of "if I'm going to criticize it, I should know what I'm talking about", and she says that while they're certainly problematic in some ways the writing is oddly compelling. In the same general way as Heinlein's "I may have problems with this book, but I always want to read the next page" effect. (Not that I'm defending Heinlein as an example of either deathless prose or healthy messages to/about teenage girls (hollow laugh), but well, that's rather the point, isn't it?)
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Re: yes! (dammit)
Date: 2010-07-25 07:20 pm (UTC)Also, someone whose reading tastes I know and trust read them, partly out of curiosity and partly out of "if I'm going to criticize it, I should know what I'm talking about", and she says that while they're certainly problematic in some ways the writing is oddly compelling. In the same general way as Heinlein's "I may have problems with this book, but I always want to read the next page" effect. (Not that I'm defending Heinlein as an example of either deathless prose or healthy messages to/about teenage girls (hollow laugh), but well, that's rather the point, isn't it?)