/lit/ - Literature

>>12271083
Respect is earned, not given. Women want to reap all the benefits of living in this post-women's-lib world where "i can hang with the guys and be just as badass as them too!!!" but they still expect to be coddled and treated like princesses and handed respect on a silver platter. See my essay-length blogpost above about the difference between those who work merit based jobs and those who sit on their ass collecting paychecks for taking the manager's dick (>>12271032).

I'll respect a woman if she's worthy of respect. Likewise, I don't expect a woman to respect me just because I'm a "nice guy" or because I know how to bend pipe.

>tl;dr: if we're living in the age of equality, women need to start acting like it.

>>12271096
I've already started staring into the barrel of the point of no return; I don't think I can overcome the bitter jaded resentment I've developed over the years toward women enough to empathize with the "40 year old woman with a shriveled uterus". They had their time in the sun when they were 16-35 and fucking Chad 8x a week in between going on wine trips to Ibiza or the Canary Islands. Conversely, some of us men have to wait and struggle and fucking eke out a tiny little niche well into our late 30's-early 40's just to find even an iota of satisfaction and hedonism similar to that.

/lit/ cringe that you did.

>Hated on Stephen King while reading Richard Bachmann

it's a short-story rather than a novel, but check out Ravissante by Robert Aickman. the story is about a painter, but there's some name-dropping of actual painters as well.