#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

11528.276 - 11551.624 Jennifer Burns

The hero rapes the heroine. And then they fall in love. That's just the trope of how it works. So it's crazy when you read it. But if you were reading a bunch of novels in this genre, you would find this is like very standard. And so that is a huge part of this appeal at the time. There's this feminist who hates Susan Brownmiller, and she wants to write an angry denunciation of the rape scene.