FTW
Another tsunami, Israel vs. Lebanon, nuclear power is the new environmentally-friendly way to go, and men are acting like cavemen again (yes, in A.D. 2006): Do we need further proof that the world is coming to a prompt end?
Didn't think so.
I could either give up and become a lesbian or ... no, wait, that's it. And found a nation of Amazons, of which I will be president. And it has to be way inland and above sea level. And I'm going to need a bunch of nuclear physicists, nuclear epidemiologists, ... When exactly did it get so complicated?
Edit: About the Observer article, I'm truly not too concerned. If men get too sassy women will bring them back to Earth somehow, and it won't be difficult. This is a ludricrous attempt by men at making themselves feel superior. I mean, if it's just to feel "adequate," I don't buy it. I don't think the feminist movement, the 3rd wave most specifically (as it is the latter, and the preceding waves each received their respective backlash), could have made men feel so out of place that they don't know who they are anymore. I'm sorry, honeys, but we ladies are still dealing with that. No, everyone is dealing with that, no matter the gender. So grow the fuck up.
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what truly bothers me about this is;
"That certainly echoes Max's philosophy; his website boasts: 'I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers and sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable."
first of all, as a lit. student you are taught never to trust your narrator. especially if he feels the need to explicitly tell you all his exploits.
but even more infuriating is my bad taste as a literature student. i'll admit it (and god help me for the feminist back-lash i get for saying this; is there a god in feminism? oh, wait, there is, but it's a she, right?)-- i love charles bukowski. and he was doing all those things that max is doing, without having to state it in interviews. and he was doing it in the early '90's well past the whole feminist movement. and more importantly, he was doing it much better than this cheap knock-off.
that: "In literature the hot new trend is Fratire, a male alternative to chick lit that celebrates drinking and sex."
bothers me, not as a person with sympathies for the feminist movement (as hard as they are to see at times). but much more so as a literature student. "chick lit" is bad enough without adding a male equivalent. especially one that has already been done in much better form.
these are people who are playing up a persona, and who don't care about literature as an art.
baudeliare, bukowski, john fante, f. celine, hemingway-- are all writers that could be seen as misygonist-- and wheather your opinion of them is that they are good or bad, they did care about the written word, about the art of the thing.
not like these cheap rip-offs who want to make money so are playing up to controversy.
woman might not be the best place to start (especially if you are into gender studies).
try pulp-- his last and one of his best novella's.
and while he is a misogynist, watching interviews with him it's no wonder. and while it is not a good excuse, if an excuse at all, take into account the time period he grew up in. you might also take into account the women bukowski hooked up with; women that treated him like shit.
again, it's not an excuse, but just something to take into account.
in the end i think his attitude towards women (the people, not the novel) was more of him creating his own myth, than what he actually really thought.
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