[Reading Notes] The Terrifying Combination of Magnificent Literature and the Crime of Seduction—Rereading "Fang Siqi's Paradise of First Love"

...you have a choice, you can pretend that no one in the world takes pleasure in raping little girls, pretend that no little girl has ever been raped ... you can live a life of bourgeois peace and quiet, pretend there is no mental cancer in the world, pretend There is no place in the world with iron railings, and everyone behind the railings has a mental cancer. You can pretend that there are only macarons, pour-over coffee and imported stationery in the world. But you can also choose to experience all the pain Siqi has ever felt and learn from all the efforts she made to resist these pains...

It has been 4 years since the writer Lin Yihan committed suicide. Although there was a lot of uproar, after the passage of time and even the baptism of the epidemic, the dark and dirty things in the supplementary education circle have long been ignored. However, to open "Fang Siqi's Paradise of First Love" again, it still takes a lot of courage, because the pain in it is so deep and the author's words are so cruel and beautiful.

The protagonists Siqi and Yiting are neighbors in the same high-end residential area. They have been inseparable since childhood, but after a famous supplementary teacher moved in, the fate of the two of them was completely different. With the trap of power and words, and the taboo of sex topics in traditional Taiwanese families, Li Guohua seduced and raped Siqi, who was only 13 years old. abuser. In the face of inner contradictions, but can't find an outlet, even the closest friends can't talk to them, and finally Siqi inevitably embarks on the road of destruction.

"Why can't I? Why can't I? Why can't you? Until now, I didn't know that the whole thing could be reduced to this first act: He pushed in, and I apologize for it."

When education, society and sex offenders conspire

In the novel "Fang Siqi's Paradise of First Love", readers can see many abnormal phenomena in Taiwan's education and society, including attaching importance to further education but not teaching students how to protect themselves, ideal victims, and reviewing victims. A sex offender's dream gift. According to the author's words, readers also seem to have experienced Stockholm Syndrome and PTSD with Siqi, and finally can only ironically convince themselves to embrace the abuser to rationalize their experience of violence.

The above content sounds uncomfortable, but the author's dazzling ability to use words allows them to coexist with delicate words, and convinces readers to follow her step by step to the abyss of hell, knowing that there is blood in front of her, But he couldn't help but open his eyes.

Just now at the dinner table, Siqi said to her mother in a tone of buttered bread: "Our tutors seem to have everything except sex education." Mom looked at her in surprise and replied, "What kind of sex education? Sex education is for Those who need sex. Isn't that what education is all about?" Siqi understood for a moment that in this story, parents would be absent forever, they were absent from school, but they thought school had not started yet.

Don't forget "Fang Siqi" for the unfinished business of Taiwanese society

Although the story is terrifying, the small plot in "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" is a common plot among many families, relatives and friends, and it also symbolizes that victims of sexual violence are so easily missed. In addition, the news in recent months is also warning us that this society is still in the stage of enlightenment in terms of sex education and gender awareness, and new victims may appear every second, and such "qualifications" ", is not the "privilege" of a particular ethnic group, and everyone may be the victim.

As the real version of "Fang Siqi", the author Lin Yihan did not get justice in the end, and the prosecution even used "consensual behavior" as the reason for not prosecuting, while the victim Chen Xing was revealed last year and has moved to China for development. The author has no intention of commenting on the judicial decision here. After all, the evidence that can be convicted may have long since disappeared. But as the book says, Siqi "allows us to see the backside of the world without experience." Although reading such a subject requires a lot of psychological preparation, it is compared with the courage that the author needs to write these words with a pen. , our discomfort may be trivial at all.

(For more relevant analysis, please refer to the previously introduced "This is a girl, but also a misogyny")

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