/lit/ - Literature

>oh yeah anon I love Communism, it's my favourite ideology
>well no, I only read the communist manifesto
>What is Hoxhaism? No I haven't heard of it
>I think that syriza is a great party, Alexis Tsipras is so hot

Why do women do this?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/unspeakable-things-feminist-author-laurie-penny-subjected-to-vile-sexist-and-antisemitic-abuse-over-her-book-9617744.html
>“This has become a normal part of my life as a person who dares to write in public whilst being female, sexy and left-wing, but this weekend it’s been particularly full on.
>Rape fantasies and pictures of dead children were coming faster than I could block individual users.
>Somewhat ironic, given that there’s a whole chapter in the book about how structural sexism works online, especially certain boards structured around interests.
>I am sick of this bullshit. Criticism is one thing – and the book has received its fair share of that from privileged writers who think it’s too personal, too politically strident, too left-wing, too degenerate or too edgy, as well as rave reviews from critics who love it for precisely the same reasons, neither example lessened by their interest in my physical appearance and gender, pretty girls never seem to have as much fun as one thinks."

"I love Game of Thrones, but it’s not subtle. Its major plot points are so simplistic that they may as well have been scrawled in crayon on the intricate wallpaper of literary-televisual tradition.

Game of Thrones is, in short, about as much gory, horny fun as any pop-cultural artefact can be in a post-Fordist, post-crisis spectacle society which has not yet sanctioned hatchet-slashing death-matches between social outcasts and starving circus animals, although David Cameron has not yet revealed the details of his plan to tackle Britain’s housing crisis. No wonder everyone’s watching.

By ‘everyone,’ I mean almost four million people viewing the premiere in America alone, and many millions more watching the show online and in repeats across the English-speaking world. The general awfulness of what passes for reality means we need least an hour every week where everybody gets lost in a crypto-Medieval saga of mythical beasties, heaving bosoms, court intrigue and buckets of blood. Which is probably why so many otherwise discerning liberal viewers choose to give Game of Thrones a free pass on its staggering race and gender problems and enjoy the shit out of it anyway..."

>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/tv-and-radio/2012/06/game-thrones-and-good-ruler-complex