Political Memes

From a post on the other site:

@be_passersby

The most uncomfortable I’ve been reading one of King’s books is in Bag of Bones with Mike Noonan’s obvious sexual attraction to a three year old.

I wouldn’t call it an opinion… here, I’ll give you some quotes, you can make up your own mind:

Upon his first meeting her: “I felt like Chester the Molester the second I had my arm locked under her bottom. I was very aware that anyone could look out and see me. This is one of the strange midlife realities of my generation: we can’t touch a child who isn’t our own without fearing others will see something lecherous in our touching … or without thinking, way down deep in the sewers of our psyches, that there probably IS something lecherous in it.”

His very next thought is this: “She was bright-eyed, smiling. I figured that she’d probably be pregnant by the time she was twelve, especially given the cool way she was wearing her baseball cap.”

He describes her as “comely”, “pretty”, “the bathing beauty”, and “Miss Bosox of 1998”. When she talks, he narrates that it “sounded exotic - the Vietnamese word for ‘ecstasy’, perhaps.”

He thinks to himself, “I was glad I was too old to be one of her future boyfriends”, then imagines her getting pregnant before high school. Then he thinks maybe he’s gone too far there: “She’s three years old and you’ve already got her with three kids of her own, two with ringworm and one retarded.”

When he meets the three year old’s mother, his initial thought is that she “looked all of twelve, fourteen at the outside.” (That’s the second mention of a twelve year old mother, by the way.) We find out later in one of his dreams where he’s raping her that he thought she looked so young mainly because her breasts were “tiny like teacups”. Toward the end of the dream he murders the three year old, then wakes up ejaculating into the lake!?

Of course by the end of the story, this young single mother is literally pleading for him to bone her (pun intended), and when he does, how does he describe the feel of her skin? “Her skin was warm, and silky as her daughter’s.”

So, how many times did you throw up reading that?

Yeah, a few.

Go read threads deeper down this post, it is filled with examples.

King's pedophilic tendencies show in his unnecessarily sexualized descriptions of teenage characters. I specifically say unnecessary as sexualized language is just part and parcel of depicting scenes of sexual abuse and violence, and many of his works are touch on these topics. Most of it, though, is just "creepy and unnecessary", like his infatuation with detailed descriptions of their breasts, or just a sentence or two that is kinda cringe but can readily be passed over quickly.

Like in Carrie he writes at length on how smooth and attractive her legs are. In Under the Dome there is a paragraph that goes into unnecessary detail about a teenager girl's pubic hair. In his short story, The Jaunt, where a father is thinking about his children growing up at home without him; the boy is thought about as simply "going through puberty" whereas the thoughts about his daughter are about how she should be starting to develop breasts.

Another comment mentioned another short story where a daughter, now grown, dwells on her dad cumming with her in his lap during an eclipse when she was like 9, but they don't mention the name of the story.

Well, it's not like I'm hiring a PI or anything. The only difference is whether or not I'll read his books. And since I believe strongly in the death of the author, and also in public libraries, he's not making any money off me either way.

I just think his post and the way he said it puts him in a very bad light. As an author, he should be better able to convey his tone.