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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd argue that Ring of Fire is a metaphor about forbidden love that you know is damning you but the feelings are too powerful to resist.

Rather than a harmless metaphor, I find it an incredibly powerful metaphor about the pain and suffering caused by helplessly loving the "wrong" person.

Plus, there's an opportunity to make STD jokes.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be a more powerful metaphor if he wasn't a massive manwhore and his "love" wasn't any fan with great tits, or his second wife's sister.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. No one said he wasn't flawed.

Yeah, that was the point, you nailed it fam.