XVI, by Julia Karr

[rachelmanija]

I would never be a crazed sex-teen!Someone could write a good teen dystopia based on the screwed-up messages that modern American society sends to teenage girls: If you have sex with boys, you’re a slut. If you don’t, you’re a prude, a lesbian, or a reject. If you dress fashionably, you’re a slut. If you dress conservatively, you’re a prude. If you

Comments

[rachelmanija]

I think readers tend to have lines they draw in the sand, and if a character steps over them it's straight into the Moral Event Horizon. Infidelity is a common one. Despising your own friends is one of mine. (Luckily, that comes up less than infidelity.)

Note that both share elements of hurting the ones you (supposedly) love, and of humiliation squick.

[kateelliott]

[ambyr]

Despising your own friends is one of mine.

I'm not sure I've ever seen it put so clearly; thanks. That was one of my central problems with Who Fears Death, for another example.

[asakiyume]

I'm with you and Janni and Ambyr. That's not any sort of friendship I'd ever want to experience.