Friday, January 30, 2004
Bad Things
Erin has an interesting and thoughtful post on violence, specifically rape, in fiction and comics.
It’s an interesting, although disturbing, concept to consider. I know that Marion Zimmer Bradley typically would not accept rape and revenge stories for Sword & Sorcoress (among other story types she avoided) which is something for which I was grateful. But it does beg the question, why is the subject so much more discomforting.
Go read.