07-27-2016, 03:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2016, 03:07 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
(07-27-2016, 02:55 PM)YinYang Wrote:PeacefulWarrior Wrote:And don't even get me started on her ideas about love and sex.
Actually.... so I read this article in NYTimes today - I Was Ayn Rand's Lover, and honestly, I would have to say that I think she was a closet gay. It's just the impression I got, I have also found that closet gays are usually the fiercest critics of homosexuality, and in addition to that she referred to herself as a "male chauvinist"....
What? Nah. She was into dom\sub games. That's where that article got the whole raping thing. Sex was about power, to Rand. Almost exclusively. She also loved love-triangles, both in her fiction and in her real-life relationships, presumably because of the conflicts inherent in such arrangements.
And I'm not even sure I could summarize the Roark\Dominque relationship in "Fountainhead." They spent much of their time attempting to destroy each other, especially an incredibly lengthy section where Dom (geddit?) does everything she can think of to try to 'break' Roark, to prove he isn't worthy of her. Or something. It was messed up and, at the very least, was among the most loveless sexual relationships ever in a best-selling novel.
But either way, she spent way too much time writing about her idea of perfect fantasy men to be gay.