Why I dislike MLC

[apollinav]

Yes, I'm aware that I'm being a hipocrite.  Thank you.  I've just finished posting Ch 61 of my MLC Fic.

MLC for some girls out there is real.  There's nothing glorious about forced marriage.  A lot of MLCs romanticise them - not to knock any particular author.  MLC is fiction.  This is real life.  Big difference.  I get it.

But this still bothers me.  

And I'm not going to listen to 'cultural sensitivity issues' bullcrap - I don't care that it's a cultural practice.   According to my values, it's morally wrong.

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Comments

[droxy.livejournal.com]

But but..whines...I love your fic.

lets face it...thisis just entertainment romance.

I have seen arranged (not forced) marriages. The majority of them in modern India that I saw and as they explained it to me, is its not forced. But you have more folks involved in the process.

The worst I saw I was was a special for of Islam prostitution where men had temporary brides...sort of like rent a wife.. it is completely legal in their (the men's and the clergy's) eyes..then they dump the gal often knocked up and the men walk away. It is prostitution , its a whole racket that made teh clergy rich, and this was published in the Hyderabad times. That is the horridness of that real "forced" marriage. Religious hipocrites are everrwhere in the world.

Honestly, I can TELL the deffiernce between a MLC fanfic and know its fiction. But the reality is hideous.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

*nods* Fanon is not rl. I'm with you 100% babe. The story just struck a chord because it really hits home that there are women out there without a choice. Forced marriage is rape. And I mean forced marriage - not arranged marriages where the bride has a choice in the matter.

*shudders* What you describe is sickening. It may be from my cultural POV, but I can't divorce myself from my beliefs and say that's ever OK.