/lit/ - Literature

>>20370496
their brains are wired differently from ours. They see everything through a lens of social climbing, but simultaneously refuse to acknowledge their own shitty behavior. At best they're sociopaths and at worse psychopaths.

Whereas men will generally write books about shitty characters and acknowledge their shortcomings, women seem to be completely blind to the faults of their self-inserts, and present their characters as altruistic, when in fact the average reader can tell they're manipulative and selfish. Eat, Pray, Love is a really good example of this.

>>13962654
>A genocidal tyrannical force dictates senseless orders and illogical rules that are eternally punished if not meted out to the foot of the letter.
>Every once it a while it throws you a bone
>It expects endless praise for anything and everything it does
>It believes itself to be a force of good
You know what? The Bible is appropriate for once.

>It's been hopeless for a long time, from the very beginning. You will never represent, Stacy, a young mans erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you. It's already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you've known since your adolescence, Stacy, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have men in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That's how it is.