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Pamela Andrews: [is a teenage servant girl who is continually sexually harassed by her boss, escalating into flat-out kidnapping, and is subject to repeated rape attempts which she only (and somewhat implausibly) escapes by repeated fainting fits]
Pamela Andrews: [ends up agreeing to marry this creep once he sees the error of his ways and “reforms”, whereupon Mr. Creep gives her patronizing marital advice and graciously forgives the hapless servants, clergymen, etc. who pissed him off by trying to help her]
Me in college reading Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded: Hmm, so this early novel not only had a raving fandom, but a raving hatedom. I can see why -
Antipamelists: I’ll say! He actually married a servant! How obscene!
Me: Hang on -
Antipamelists, Henry Fielding front and center: Okay but what if Pamela was actually a gold-digging conniving hussy who was playing the victim all along -
Me: Oh, fuck you too.