{"id":34443,"date":"2017-12-01T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=34443"},"modified":"2017-11-29T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:19:10","slug":"voice-in-the-wind-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2017\/12\/voice-in-the-wind-attempted-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice in the Wind: Attempted Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/tag\/voice-in-the-wind\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Voice in the Wind, pp. 387-394<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>**trigger warning for attempted rape and sexual assault**<\/p>\n<p>Remember all of Marcus\u2019 brooding last week? Marcus decides he\u2019s had enough of Hadassah\u2019s resistance to his advances, and when she walks into the villa\u00a0he orders her\u00a0to come to his chambers. She obeys, full of trepidation, and he closes the door behind her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turning slightly, he looked back at her. His own longing was mirrored in her eyes, mingled with confusion and fear. \u201cHadassah,\u201d he breathed, and everything the felt for her was in her name. \u201cI have waited\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d she said in a soft cry and moved to flee.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus caught her before she could open the door. Forcing her around, he pressed her back against it. \u201cWhy do you fight your feelings? You love me.\u201d He cupped her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus, don\u2019t!\u201d she said in anguish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdmit it,\u201d he said and lowered his mouth to take hers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is what passes for Christian romance.<\/p>\n<p>I knew when I decided to review this book that there was something off about Marcus\u2019 \u201crelationship\u201d with Hadassah, but it had been a decade and more since I\u2019d read the book. I didn\u2019t remember\u00a0how abusive Marcus was. In fact, I don\u2019t think I fully realized\u00a0this was abuse when I read this book. I knew he tried to rape her, but I read it all as fornication. The problem was\u00a0that Marcus didn\u2019t\u00a0believe in saving sex for marriage, like Hadassah did, not that he was an abusive. The problem was that he didn\u2019t understand\u00a0that sex was\u00a0\u201cworth the wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this \u201cyou actually want me\u201d stuff is really damaging. I think Rivers thinks it\u2019s sexy\u2014and I\u2019m sure trashy secular romance novels engage in this trope too. But it is a claim abusers make, both to justify their abuse and to get inside their victims\u2019 heads.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d rather not have to quote that much of this passage, but I feel I need to to make it clear just how despicable Marcus is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou love me!\u201d he said fiercely and this time captured her chin and listed her face to him. He covered her mouth with his, kissing her with all the intense passion that had been growing in him for months. He drank of her like a man dying of thirst. Her body melted gradually into his, and he knew he couldn\u2019t wait any longer. Catching her up in his arms, he carried her across the room to his couch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo!\u201d she cried and began to struggle again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop fighting me,\u201d he said hoarsely. He saw the darkness of her eyes and the flush of her skin. \u201cStop fighting yourself.\u201d He caught her wrists. \u201cI left Rome to be with you. I\u2019ve waited for you longer than I\u2019ve ever waited for any woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarcus, don\u2019t bring this sin upon yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Sin,'\u201d he sneered and took her mouth again. She clutched at his tunic, half-pushing, half-clinging. She kept begging him to stop, and her pleas\u00a0only made him more determined to prove her desire was no less than his own. She trembled beneath his touch, and he could feel the heat of her skin\u2014but he also tasted the saltiness of tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod, help me!\u201d she cried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod,\u201d he said, suddenly furious. All gentleness was forgotten in an explosion of frustration. \u201cYes, pray to a god. Pray to Venus. Pray to Eros that you might behave like a normal woman!\u201d He felt the neckline of her tunic tear in his hand and heard her soft, frightened cry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hadassah is\u00a0literally <em>crying<\/em> and Marcus\u00a0keeps going. When she cries out to her god to help\u00a0her, Marcus\u00a0is\u00a0\u201cfurious\u201d and becomes rough with her. This whole section is horrific. Marcus is sneering at her and yelling at her. He says she owes it to him because he \u201cleft Rome to be with\u201d her even though <em>she never asked him to do this<\/em>. This is textbook abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rivers keeps dropping in mentions of Hadassah\u2019s own desire for Marcus, because that is apparently very important and something we really need to know.\u00a0In fact, there are hints that the battle is still <em>within Hadassah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This whole scene would feel a lot less out of place if Marcus were the lecherous Roman Hadassah must escape, while maintaining her purity, to eventually win her freedom and run off to join the Apostle John and become his right-hand assistant in sharing the gospel across the city. Even\u00a0Hadassah\u2019s inner turmoil could be worked into this version of the story, where she would face\u00a0both the lecherous intent of her master, Marcus, and the well intentioned advances of a kind, handsome, but non-Christian fellow slave. Or perhaps she would have\u00a0made a vow of perpetual chastity.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that we all know that she ends up <em>marrying<\/em> Marcus. You know, a man who has sexually assaulted her multiple times and even attempted to rape her. This isn\u2019t a lecherous master she must escape to push forward the plot\u2014<em>this is the man she will marry<\/em>. And here he is, trying to rape her. In a Christian\u00a0romance novel.<\/p>\n<p>When Marcus rips Hadassah\u2019s tunic, her cry startles him, and he steps back and stops assaulting her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHadassah,\u201d he groaned, filled with self-loathing. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean\u2014\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes you did, you disgusting prick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He broke off, stunned into silence by the sight of her still, white face. Her eyes were closed and she was not moving. All the breath went out of him as he looked at her still form. \u201cHadassah!\u201d Cradling her in his arms, he brushed the hair back from her face and laid his hand over her heart, terrified that her god had struck her dead to save her purity. But her heart beat against his palm, and relief flooded him\u2014until it came to him with a sickening blow that he had been about to rape her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No shit, dude.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, Hadassah has\u00a0fainted. How many more tropes can we draw on, here? As Marcus holds her and touches her she\u00a0begins to stir; he turns away and brings her wine.\u00a0He\u2019s so very, very sorry. He puts his hands over hers, apologizing. He touches her hair, saying he\u2019s sorry. He can\u2019t stop touching her even now. Hadassah starts to cry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDon\u2019t cry. Hadassah,\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0cry. Please. \u2026 Nothing happened. You needn\u2019t cry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Nothing happened<\/em>. Really? Really? She was just sexually assaulted. That he stopped does not change that.\u00a0What he did to her was traumatic, period. Nothing happened,<em> my foot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <em>I\u2019m<\/em> not writing this book. <em>Rivers<\/em> is. As Hadassah sobs, Marcus promises her that he\u2019s \u201cnever lost control like that before\u201d and that he \u201cnever meant to hurt\u201d her. But because this is Rivers\u2019 book, it turns out that Hadassah is actually sobbing in gratefulness that he stopped. She tells him that \u201cthe Lord will bless\u201d him for stopping. This angers Marcus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He came back and forced her to look at him. \u201cIs this love I have for you what you would call a blessing?\u201d He saw his grip was hurting her and let her go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy hell,<em> stop touching her!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because this is Rivers\u2019 book and not mine, Marcus and Hadassah proceed to have a lengthy conversation that goes on for four pages. Hadassah is very concerned for Marcus\u2019 soul, you see. She\u00a0suggests that Marcus\u2019 love for her may be God\u2019s way of trying to work on him. Marcus laughs and rejects the idea outright.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to know what it is in you that makes you cling to this unseen god of yours. Tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hadassah looked up at him and knew she loved him as she would never love another.\u00a0<em>Why, God? Why this man who doesn\u2019t understand? Why this man who willfully rejects you? Are you cruel, as Marcus says?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, Marcus,\u201d she said, deeply shaken. She still trembled with a strange, heavy longing for him and was afraid at how easy it would be to surrender to the sensations Marcus stirred in her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, God, give me strength. I have none of my own. The way he looks at me makes me melt inside. He makes me weak.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the hands of a different author, this could be\u00a0interesting. It\u2019s not uncommon for domestic violence victims to face inner turmoil like this, and conflicted feelings. A novel in which a woman tries to gain strength to leave an abusive partner\u2014and has to work through identifying his behavior as abusive\u2014could be deeply riveting.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Rivers does not appear to\u00a0see Hadassah\u00a0as a victim of domestic violence. Rivers, in other words,\u00a0is not\u00a0trying to tease out toxic thought patterns or the\u00a0inner conflict\u00a0of survivors of violence. In her hands, Marcus\u2019 problem is not\u00a0that he\u2019s an abuser; it\u2019s that he\u2019s not saved. And so we get to see Hadassah sit and discuss religion and philosophy with the man who just attempted to rape\u00a0her, conflicted only by her deep love and physical desire for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When he looked at her like that, she\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0think. She lowered her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus came to her and tipped her chin up. \u201cYou can\u2019t answer, can you? You think this god of yours is everything. That he\u2019s enough. I tell you he isn\u2019t. Can he hold you, Hadassah? Can he touch you? Can he kiss you?\u201d His hand spread gently against her cheek, and when\u00a0he\u00a0saw how her eyes closed, his pulse jumped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s more of this, more handsy Marcus explaining to Hadassah just\u00a0how much she wants him and how he\u2019ll totally fulfill her needs better than her god. We get <em>four straight pages of this<\/em>. Finally, Marcus\u00a0despairs of convincing her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would have to command you, wouldn\u2019t I?\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou won\u2019t command me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes you so sure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re an honorable man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, honey, no.<\/p>\n<p>Hadassah needs an intervention. She needs girlfriends who tell her that Marcus is a cad. If she took this to the Apostle John you\u2019d better believe she\u2019d portray herself as the problem. She\u2019d tell him of her sin, of her desire for Marcus and her weakness, and he\u2019d take her portrayal of the situation at face value, never realizing that <em>she\u2019s being preyed on by an angry, violent abuser<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, last time I checked Hadassah was Julia\u2019s slave, not Marcus\u2019 slave.<\/p>\n<p>I feel the need to emphasize, again, how popular this book is in evangelical circles. It was published in the 1990s; it\u2019s possible that its popularity\u00a0has waned since. But when I first started mentioning this book on my blog, I was amazed at how many commenters who were raised in evangelical homes and communities declared that they\u2019d read it too. Francine Rivers is no fringe author. Her books are the big time, in evangelical circles.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of trashy romance novels out there. LOTS. The problem is that, as with Martha Findley\u2019s Elsie Dinsmore series, these books are meant to be prescriptive. Hadassah is intended\u00a0to serve as a role model. Julia is intended to serve as a model of all the bad things that happen to young women who are worldly and materialistic and not Christian. We are <em>meant<\/em> to put ourselves in Hadassah\u2019s shoes, and to learn from her example. And what, exactly, were we learning?<\/p>\n<p>That said, these books do sometimes fill a role similar to that of your typical smut romance novels. As an evangelical teen, this\u00a0was some of the only smut I was allowed to read. Thinking about it now, I\u2019m vaguely curious\u00a0what role\u00a0these books may have played in\u00a0shaping\u00a0my sexual kinks and fantasies as an adult. I reread and reread these sections. The few times I had\u00a0access to comparative consensual smut, I had to read it in secret and knew it was a no-no; these books, in contrast, were approved and could be reread multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>If you made it this far, congrats. If I remember correctly, this is the only time Marcus tries to rape Hadassah, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of trashy romance novels out there. LOTS. The problem is that, as with Martha Findley&#8217;s Elsie Dinsmore series, these books are meant to be prescriptive. Hadassah is intended to serve as a role model. Julia is intended to serve as a model of all the bad things that happen to young women who are worldly and materialistic and not Christian. We are meant to put ourselves in Hadassah&#8217;s shoes, and to learn from her example. 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