In Anakin's book, lady and prude are synonyms, anyway. I need to have a few words with him then. He should feel proud he is in love with a respectable woman. LOL
Actually, I have a pretty serious reason behind saying that. ;)
Anakin grew up on a world where, as you mentioned, there are probably plenty of "pleasure houses" and anyone could be sold into them at any time, really. He knows that a "respectable woman" is only respectable because she has the money and/or the social position to afford it. The women (and possibly men) in the pleasure houses don't choose to be disreputable. They just don't have a choice. And in a culture that has a very clear-cut division between the slaves whose lives are defined by others and the respectable people who are free to define their own lives...well, there's bound to be a degree of animosity between the two.
So I think Anakin does see lady, prude, and "respectable woman" as all being synonyms. And those things may not have a very good connotation for him. Instead they bring to mind the sort of people who can afford to be prudish and respectable, because they do have a choice, and they can create screens with their words and hide behind polite talk. The slaves don't have that kind of luxury. So kids on Naboo can learn about the goddess Eilithé who brings babies to parents who ask for them, but the kids on Tatooine know that babies come from sex, and they even know that the mommy doesn't always want the daddy to do those things to her, but he does them anyway. It's not a very pretty picture, but it is reality.
While this fic was mostly in fun, I do think there's a bit of genuine resentment behind Anakin's teasing of Padmé. Because there is a huge cultural and (perhaps even more importantly) social/financial gulf between them, and even though it's been ten years since Anakin was on Tatooine, that kind of poverty isn't easily forgotten. No matter how much he adores Padmé, there are certain things he's experienced that she will never really understand. (And vice versa, of course.) I think that was present in the movies, as well, and it was never really resolved between them.
Sorry for the tl;dr. Hopefully it made a bit of sense!
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Date: 2008-07-19 03:30 am (UTC)I need to have a few words with him then. He should feel proud he is in love with a respectable woman. LOL
Actually, I have a pretty serious reason behind saying that. ;)
Anakin grew up on a world where, as you mentioned, there are probably plenty of "pleasure houses" and anyone could be sold into them at any time, really. He knows that a "respectable woman" is only respectable because she has the money and/or the social position to afford it. The women (and possibly men) in the pleasure houses don't choose to be disreputable. They just don't have a choice. And in a culture that has a very clear-cut division between the slaves whose lives are defined by others and the respectable people who are free to define their own lives...well, there's bound to be a degree of animosity between the two.
So I think Anakin does see lady, prude, and "respectable woman" as all being synonyms. And those things may not have a very good connotation for him. Instead they bring to mind the sort of people who can afford to be prudish and respectable, because they do have a choice, and they can create screens with their words and hide behind polite talk. The slaves don't have that kind of luxury. So kids on Naboo can learn about the goddess Eilithé who brings babies to parents who ask for them, but the kids on Tatooine know that babies come from sex, and they even know that the mommy doesn't always want the daddy to do those things to her, but he does them anyway. It's not a very pretty picture, but it is reality.
While this fic was mostly in fun, I do think there's a bit of genuine resentment behind Anakin's teasing of Padmé. Because there is a huge cultural and (perhaps even more importantly) social/financial gulf between them, and even though it's been ten years since Anakin was on Tatooine, that kind of poverty isn't easily forgotten. No matter how much he adores Padmé, there are certain things he's experienced that she will never really understand. (And vice versa, of course.) I think that was present in the movies, as well, and it was never really resolved between them.
Sorry for the tl;dr. Hopefully it made a bit of sense!