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audryt 's review for:
Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains)
by Laurie Boyle Crompton
In attempting to tackle slut-shaming, this story ends up reinforcing it -- and just about every tired stereotype there is about teenage boys, teenage girls, deadbeat fathers and single mothers.
The knowledge about comics put into the story is extensive and the enthusiasm the character has for art is appealing, but that doesn't make up for the story's superficial handling of the serious subject it chose to tackle. At the end of they day, the girls accused of being sluts aren't sluts, not because there's nothing wrong with girls being sexual, but because they were either virgins or duped/manipulated by guys, which ends up reinforcing the idea that there really are sluts in the world.
You know -- the girls who want to have casual sex, who may even actually like casual sex, and who end up "being what they're accused of", as one woman put it near the climax of the book.
On behalf of every girl who ever had a great time exploring her sexuality without buying into the attitude that it makes her a slut, I give this book the finger.
You know which one I mean. ~~~
The knowledge about comics put into the story is extensive and the enthusiasm the character has for art is appealing, but that doesn't make up for the story's superficial handling of the serious subject it chose to tackle. At the end of they day, the girls accused of being sluts aren't sluts, not because there's nothing wrong with girls being sexual, but because they were either virgins or duped/manipulated by guys, which ends up reinforcing the idea that there really are sluts in the world.
You know -- the girls who want to have casual sex, who may even actually like casual sex, and who end up "being what they're accused of", as one woman put it near the climax of the book.
On behalf of every girl who ever had a great time exploring her sexuality without buying into the attitude that it makes her a slut, I give this book the finger.
You know which one I mean. ~~~