You really really tempt me into typing the phrase that must not be typed, that i seriously regret wondering about the viability of. Although... suddenly thought... i bet the novel "little women" is pretty safe... can't bring myself to check given the slew of horrendous not about the novel stuff that would come up. In fact is it one you've read? I have very mixed views about classical womens literature, i enjoy it, it's well written, but yeah, as much as i love pride and prejudice, not sure the female characters have the views we should be striving for lol. I did read little women as a child, and am slowly making my way through the audio book now, but it does seem to generally be an exception to some degree.
Characters are real, you break your heart, laugh and smile with them, they are real to you, so agree with you on that for sure. In a way, they almost become like friends, so to see that, yeah. Although equally if a character is as such they would do that, its gets a tiny bit more grey. That said, i dunno how i actually feel but, i can relate to the camp of "better they make the art/write about it and get their perverted fix that way than actually doing it" although i suspect it just makes thing worse but eh, i really don't know.
UwU ~ Thanks for reading and thanks for philosophizing!
I have indeed not read Little Women but I have clamor from all around me, I should investigate the book properly when I do finish up some theory and fictional reading on my part. Regardless, I have heard that it standed out as socially more progressive compared to other literature at the time and was supposedly described as autobiographical. No clue either way nor will I comment any further ‘til I have read it proper and thought it through carefully.
There’s a whole history of works contributing to the existing Superstructure and reproducing the culture and ideology. Sexual fantastic works here as well; think of how Medievalans and Antiquity people thought and wrote of sexual relationships in comparison to just Bourgeois and Communist thoughts on these. The main point is to point it out and make sure that their act of hiding it just normalizes a problem that needs to be overcome one way or the other.