She wasn't legal, man. She was a minor in every single state in the US. The portrayal of their "relationship" here is gross. She's not a muse, she's a sexual abuse survivor, even if she has been conditioned not to see it. Deeply disturbed by this piece.
She wasn't legal, man. She was a minor in every single state in the US. The portrayal of their "relationship" here is gross. She's not a muse, she's a sexual abuse survivor, even if she has been conditioned not to see it. Deeply disturbed by this piece.
I read some of the other material you wrote on the topic. When someone presses charges, they are letting the state know about a crime that has been committed. Someone can say they want the charges dropped, but the crime was not against the victim, the crime was against the state, or rather, us a society who have given the state the power to be offended. Prosecutions happen in spite of victim's wishes constantly. I hope you can find a way to see the problems with excusing dead abusers.
The victim DOES NOT explicitly dispute the position, and if that was your takeaway, you need to take a reading comprehension class and give it another go.
Throughout this article, Augusta covers every difficult question about her relationship with CM, with a laugh and a joke. She seems uncomfortable acknowledging the content of letters she hasn't reread in decades. A better author would have examined this more deeply, but Barney made a conscious choice to first and foremost frame this as a great love story. *He's* the main character in this article, not Augusta. From his obnoxiously self-satisfied prose, to the quite frankly embarrassing fanboi POV he writes from, there is no objectivity here, for a topic that requires it.
In no way did this come across as Augusta's story. It came across as another male writer exploiting her life for their own narrative. And yes, her POV on what happened to her IS deeply, deeply complex and confusing. She doesn't see herself as a victim, so it's not the authors job to paint her as one. But it's also most certainly not the authors job to turn it into a romantic love story, as Barney felt compelled to do.
It's also true that many adult victims of grooming are unable to ever think badly about their groomers. And that's what Cormac McCarthy was. He was a groomer. Legally. So, keep trying to defend this as some impassioned stance against wokeness, but you can't exactly change the key facts of what transpired. Attempts to mitigate that truth just come across as doubling down on trying to justify a crime.
She wasn't legal, man. She was a minor in every single state in the US. The portrayal of their "relationship" here is gross. She's not a muse, she's a sexual abuse survivor, even if she has been conditioned not to see it. Deeply disturbed by this piece.
Cormac McCarthy is dead and the victim explicitly disputes your position. What is the moral value of what you're attempting here?
What's the moral value of what YOU'RE attempting here?
I read some of the other material you wrote on the topic. When someone presses charges, they are letting the state know about a crime that has been committed. Someone can say they want the charges dropped, but the crime was not against the victim, the crime was against the state, or rather, us a society who have given the state the power to be offended. Prosecutions happen in spite of victim's wishes constantly. I hope you can find a way to see the problems with excusing dead abusers.
The victim DOES NOT explicitly dispute the position, and if that was your takeaway, you need to take a reading comprehension class and give it another go.
Throughout this article, Augusta covers every difficult question about her relationship with CM, with a laugh and a joke. She seems uncomfortable acknowledging the content of letters she hasn't reread in decades. A better author would have examined this more deeply, but Barney made a conscious choice to first and foremost frame this as a great love story. *He's* the main character in this article, not Augusta. From his obnoxiously self-satisfied prose, to the quite frankly embarrassing fanboi POV he writes from, there is no objectivity here, for a topic that requires it.
In no way did this come across as Augusta's story. It came across as another male writer exploiting her life for their own narrative. And yes, her POV on what happened to her IS deeply, deeply complex and confusing. She doesn't see herself as a victim, so it's not the authors job to paint her as one. But it's also most certainly not the authors job to turn it into a romantic love story, as Barney felt compelled to do.
It's also true that many adult victims of grooming are unable to ever think badly about their groomers. And that's what Cormac McCarthy was. He was a groomer. Legally. So, keep trying to defend this as some impassioned stance against wokeness, but you can't exactly change the key facts of what transpired. Attempts to mitigate that truth just come across as doubling down on trying to justify a crime.