Talk:Satireknight Rants - Marion Zimmer Bradley And Why I Hate Her/@comment-2607:FCC8:AE4B:200:1478:689F:12A6:993-20191107202922

I'm just now finding out about this! Now, in 2019! This news is so sad and distressing. The Darkover books were some of my favorite escapes during teen and college years. I loved the adventures but also felt an undercurrent of ... something ... in her novels. I couldn't put it into words, but I shared that sense of unease you describe. For me the feeling radiated more from her more mainstream standalone SF books. In one of her Sword and Sorceress forewords I remember something she said that stands out, something that was dismissive of certain kinds of stories of women regaining their power after they'd been wronged. Paraphrasing here and drawing on 25-year memories, but it was something like, "not the usual rape and revenge story." I remember being boggled, because some of the most satisfying story threads in her Darkover books involved women getting revenge on their tormentors. It was a common theme, especially in stories featuring the Free Amazons. Maybe "rape and revenge" wasn't an appealing real-life concept for her if it meant rapists would be called accountable for their crimes. Distressing. I am so sorry for the children of Bradley and Breen and of the other children they victimized.