Little Nell Wrote:
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In one story, if it
> had been E. on the receiving end of that treatment
> from D. there would have been outcries that it was
> abuse. I stopped reading it about half way through
> as it was so angst ridden. The comments were even
> harder to take than the story.
Perhaps it's the same story I read half way through and found so annoying! And most of the comments don't seem to find anything wrong with Eliz's behaviour. As I said, I wonder why the stories with a foolish, doting, doormat husband and a demanding, selfish wife who takes everything and gives nothing don't name the characters John and Fanny Dashwood instead. In some moods I would actually enjoy such a story about the John Dashwoods and find it amusing. But I find it very upsetting when the abused husband is named Darcy and the abusive wife is named Elizabeth -- and we're supposed to find nothing wrong with her treatment of him.
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In one story, if it
> had been E. on the receiving end of that treatment
> from D. there would have been outcries that it was
> abuse. I stopped reading it about half way through
> as it was so angst ridden. The comments were even
> harder to take than the story.
Perhaps it's the same story I read half way through and found so annoying! And most of the comments don't seem to find anything wrong with Eliz's behaviour. As I said, I wonder why the stories with a foolish, doting, doormat husband and a demanding, selfish wife who takes everything and gives nothing don't name the characters John and Fanny Dashwood instead. In some moods I would actually enjoy such a story about the John Dashwoods and find it amusing. But I find it very upsetting when the abused husband is named Darcy and the abusive wife is named Elizabeth -- and we're supposed to find nothing wrong with her treatment of him.