Quote: (09-27-2016 08:31 AM)Germanicus Wrote:
Remember that time when she gushed about how amazing a serial killer was? How he was a real man? How William Edward Hickman, who killed a 12 year old girl by sexual torture was actually a hero? Female hamster in full force for the violent bad boy. Oh you don't? That's because it's been swept under the rug.
Aware. Lines up with her depiction of Howard Roark raping Dominique Francon as basically virtuous (or more accurately "oh so hot") in the Fountainhead. Good window into the soul of a "bare" female: sexual attraction to power and its exercise (anti-social or otherwise) above all else.
Nevertheless, Atlas Shrugged was still great, in terms of a "pleasure read", and she still made her mark legitimately due to her superior intellect (at least for a woman) and her no-holds-barred and eloquent expressions of contempt for leftism & leftists (and to a lesser extent the religious).