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October 29, 2006 at 12:00 AM
PLease Update!!! Great story!
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October 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM
A typical Islamic appropriation of a Western cultural icon. Can't you damm Muslims leave anything free of the sickly taint of Islam? Buffy is NOT Muslim. NOT Islamic. She stands for everything Islam is not -- female empowerment, sexuality, freedom of dress, thought and action. You can't appropriate her greatness by reducing her to fit the ridiculous, misogynistic dictates of Islamic culture.
So, she is supposed to 'love' her abudctor? Call him 'Lord'. Give herself to this psycho-Sheik freely? And we're somehow supposed to find the freak somehow admirable? Yeah. Right. In your dreams. Buffy isn't some cheap hareem toy; not some wilful houri secretly wishing to be tamed by a 'pure' (if you ignore rape and kidnap) Muslim fantasy conjured from the daydreams of an adolescent girl. Everyone knows a free-spirited girl like Buffy would be put to death in an Islamic country.
So turn your attention back to Scherazade and the Arabian Nights fantasy Muslims mistake for the real world. Leave the West to itself. We can live more than happily without the dead, inhuman hand of Islam polluting our culture.
So, she is supposed to 'love' her abudctor? Call him 'Lord'. Give herself to this psycho-Sheik freely? And we're somehow supposed to find the freak somehow admirable? Yeah. Right. In your dreams. Buffy isn't some cheap hareem toy; not some wilful houri secretly wishing to be tamed by a 'pure' (if you ignore rape and kidnap) Muslim fantasy conjured from the daydreams of an adolescent girl. Everyone knows a free-spirited girl like Buffy would be put to death in an Islamic country.
So turn your attention back to Scherazade and the Arabian Nights fantasy Muslims mistake for the real world. Leave the West to itself. We can live more than happily without the dead, inhuman hand of Islam polluting our culture.
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October 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM
I should apologise to Charlie for my remarks, above. They were written in the heat of anger. I live in Australia where (you may have read) the most senior Muslim cleric has stated, in a sermon, that unveiled women are "pieces of meat" asking to be raped. He went on to remark that women are the "lures of Satan," whose purpose is to ensare men. All of this in the context of the horrific gang rapes, in Sydney, of young white women by Muslim men. The Sheik has now 'excused' the rapists by blaming the victims. Next time a Muslim man is in court for rape he can reasonably claim that his religion sanctions it because of the way the woman was dressed.
And this attitude is what I find so objectionable in Charlie's story. I'm sure she is a nice person (and a not untalented writer), but her 'fantasy' contains a dangerous message --that women are the absolute property of men. Consider the premise: a group of young women are abducted and repeatedly raped. [It cannot be said they give free consent, considering their situation.] The women are subjected to extremely harsh and capricious penalties for the least infraction. They are not even permitted control over their own bodies. Pleasuring themselves, for example, is punishable by death. They are completely powerless.
And yet the story ignores the implications of the above by wrapping the criminal behaviour of Spike in cotton candy. In this fairy tale the most cruel and evil behaviour is excused as 'romantic'. The women actually compete to be raped. How is this message different from what the Mufti claimed? That rape is 'OK' because Western women 'ask' for it?
Charile, if you are serious about writing, then you need to be aware of the consequences of what you are saying, and the message you are sending to the impressionable young girls who read your stories.
But my anger at the Mufti (and male Muslim contempt for women in general)does not excuse my own harsh words in my previous post, for which I apologise. As I said, you are a not untalented writer, but you need to be aware that claiming a work is a 'fantasy' does not excuse it from responsibility, much less so from criticism.
And this attitude is what I find so objectionable in Charlie's story. I'm sure she is a nice person (and a not untalented writer), but her 'fantasy' contains a dangerous message --that women are the absolute property of men. Consider the premise: a group of young women are abducted and repeatedly raped. [It cannot be said they give free consent, considering their situation.] The women are subjected to extremely harsh and capricious penalties for the least infraction. They are not even permitted control over their own bodies. Pleasuring themselves, for example, is punishable by death. They are completely powerless.
And yet the story ignores the implications of the above by wrapping the criminal behaviour of Spike in cotton candy. In this fairy tale the most cruel and evil behaviour is excused as 'romantic'. The women actually compete to be raped. How is this message different from what the Mufti claimed? That rape is 'OK' because Western women 'ask' for it?
Charile, if you are serious about writing, then you need to be aware of the consequences of what you are saying, and the message you are sending to the impressionable young girls who read your stories.
But my anger at the Mufti (and male Muslim contempt for women in general)does not excuse my own harsh words in my previous post, for which I apologise. As I said, you are a not untalented writer, but you need to be aware that claiming a work is a 'fantasy' does not excuse it from responsibility, much less so from criticism.
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October 27, 2006 at 12:00 AM
OMG!!!! IT's amazing, i'm like addicted now! Please update soon!!
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October 27, 2006 at 12:00 AM
good story, but just let buffy get some from spike.
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October 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
OMG PLEASE UPDATE THIS IS MY FAV FIC EVAR!
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October 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM
IM soo0o happy that you have updated its been FOREVER...lol. anyways keep up the good work now im dying to know whats to come!! congrads on a great and thrilling story!
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October 23, 2006 at 12:00 AM
PLEASE UPADTE!
I want more Lord spike!
Lol
PWEASE!
=D
*Puppy dog eyes*
I want more Lord spike!
Lol
PWEASE!
=D
*Puppy dog eyes*
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October 23, 2006 at 12:00 AM
w00-h00!! yeay another update pleasies!
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October 22, 2006 at 12:00 AM
No, I haven't abandoned this fic, I'll definitely finish! Sorry it's been a while since I last updated. First I couldn't access AFF any more and couldn't add Chapter 9, and then, sometimes real life just gets in the way. I'm pleased to announce, however, that I have found a publisher for my first book (though conditions are still open to negotiation, LOL), but I have a deadline to meet, which is why I haven't been able to focus on my fanfic. When you're writing all day for months, you just don't feel like writing in your spare time too.
Anyway, I've uploaded Chapter 9 to AFF and added a short fic called "He's just not that into you" to entertain you. I'm going to update TF next, but unfortunately I can't tell you yet when that will be. I will only update TF when I'm sure that I'm pleased with the chapter.
Thank you all,
Charlie
Anyway, I've uploaded Chapter 9 to AFF and added a short fic called "He's just not that into you" to entertain you. I'm going to update TF next, but unfortunately I can't tell you yet when that will be. I will only update TF when I'm sure that I'm pleased with the chapter.
Thank you all,
Charlie