/lit/ - Literature

>>21939252
>forced to read a bunch of marxist pedophile "philosophers" in college
>It's all word salad nonsense
>the women around me nodding their heads and pretending to have any coherent discourse
it's sad

>>21736957
based

>>21707265
>Japanese/jewish hapa

I would never talk to women about philosophy lol what are you insane?

>>21439788
I live in califronia and that is 1/3 of the average these women get to. I hate everything. The sexual revolution/birth control was a mistake

>>21211853
the honest answer is if you have "girl/woman" or "boy/man" in the title, they sell better. I always avoid them, which means they are bad and we are living in hell

>>20314449
I finished it very recently anon!

I found it very funny how despite being literally forced at gunpoint to act modest and cover up Offred STILL tries to act like a slut for random strangers. Given that this was written by a women I think it tells us a lot about how women view sexuality. Oh of course, it's a powerful and brave reclamation of the sexuality that was taken from her, but imagine for a second if the author was a man. It very quickly becomes how all women are insatiable whores who even on pain of death still go around asking for it.

I found the quasi stream of consciousness way of at Atwood's writing odd. It feels like if I presented this to my teacher they'd lecture me for using too many commas. I also found most of it to be boring. Not so boring that I wasn't going to finish it, but generally the only interesting parts were scenes with the commander. Now, if Atwood deliberately wrote it so the reader ends up wanting the women to shut the fuck up so we can get back to the men, then honestly that's a stroke of genius. However, I have my doubts about that one.

My favourite parts were her being raped, and the commander wanting someone to play Scrabble with. I was also intrigued by the power structures: how her commander was at the very top of Gilead and how Nick has enough authority in the Eyes to be giving orders.

My search of trying to find a female author who isn't obsessed with love, sex, women or relationships continues.