• Ragdoll X@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    7 days ago

    Also:

    This also reminded me that in his short story “The Jaunt” Stephen King felt the need to include the following lines for no apparent reason:

    Ricky and Pat were watching him seriously, his son twelve, his daughter nine. He told himself again that Ricky would be deep in the swamp of puberty and his daughter would likely be developing breast by the time they got back to earth, and again found it difficult to believe.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      6 days ago

      This.

      Everyone knows the scene from IT and how disgusting it is but many do not understand that King has a long history of pedophilic tendencies when writing teenage girls in almost all of his works.

      In Carrie he has a section that takes an odd focus on how nice her legs look, in Under the Dome there is a lengthy description of an pubescent girl’s pubic hair, etc…

      Like, I get he is a horror writer and that means depicting scenes that are intentionally written to be uncomfortable is part of the genre, which includes scenes of sexual violence and abuse, but there are ways to accomplish these depictions without the unnecessary sexualization of underage girls.

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      7 days ago

      And the graphic description of a child being raped in “The Library Policeman”