{"id":8917,"date":"2017-12-13T13:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8917"},"modified":"2017-12-23T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:47:55","slug":"the-dark-side-of-avalon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8917","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of Avalon"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Two years ago I mentioned that author Moira Greyland, daughter of enormously influential((Especiallly to Pagans over 35, more or less)) fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen, was speaking out about sexual abuse she experienced in their household.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now you can read the book:The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

From “CT,” one of the reader-reviewers at Amazon:<\/p>\n

As a science fiction and fantasy author myself, I grew up with Marion Zimmer Bradley as an embodiment of the kind of progressive feminist ideal which was used as an encouragement for young women to aspire to while young men should follow the example of in their own writing. I all but memorized The Mists of Avalon and considered it a guide to neo-paganism, re-evaluating old stories for modern consumption, and writing female characters. The discovery Marion Zimmer Bradley covered for her pedophile husband in preying on the children of science fiction fans was stunning but not as much as the discovery she, herself, was an abusive sexual predator.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE 23 Dec. 2017: Another blogger: “The Book that Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago I mentioned that author Moira Greyland, daughter of enormously influential((Especiallly to Pagans over 35, more or less)) fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen, was speaking out about sexual abuse she experienced in their household. Now you can read the book:The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon. From “CT,” one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,314,42,12],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-fantasy","tag-sexuality","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2jP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=819","url_meta":{"origin":8917,"position":0},"title":"Pagan fiction-writing contest","author":"Chas S. 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