/lit/ - Literature

>>17073535
I don't read anything written by women

>>17073535
>Henry James
Even if you read only men, there's a great chance you are also reading "queer" writers like him, or Whitman, Wilde, Hart Crane, James Baldwin, etc.

>How does one respond to this situation and save face on being called out on one’s sexist literary preferences, /lit/?
Some of the writers I enjoy the most are woman, so I don't have that problem.

I would love that and ask for more

>>17073535
Shakespeare was a trans woman sweaty, you're a bigoted hateful incel if you deny this fact

>>17073535
>having a preference means you're sexist
Why

>>17073535
>he (or she) doesn't read purely on the merit of the contents of the book
It's quite sad that one would or wouldn't read a book because of the sex of the author.
Fuck anything "queer" however.

>>17074613
yes but you run into a problem--merit is subjective. and since you can't subjectively know the merit of a book before you read it, you have to rely on critics. and these days, a lot of critics (yes, including good critics) are women (like helen vendler). i mean, it's not a problem for me. only for the he-men poseurs on this board

Simply inform them that a woman has never written a decent book.

>>17074637
>you can't subjectively know the merit of a book before you read it
Assuming what you know about the contents of the book are true before reading the actual contents, you could measure the potential worth by looking at ranked reviews and comparing them to what you already know about the synopsis of the book.

>>17073535
why did she do it bros?

>>17073535
>*knees you in the balls*
Why are you such a faggot OP?
>How does one respond to this situation and save face on being called out on one’s sexist literary preferences, /lit/?
One says fuck off, wench, and continues with business as usual

>>17073535
>*knees you in the balls*
There's your first mistake, assuming that I'd let her.
You see, the moment I see the knee start to come up, I jump up, splitting my legs. I am capable of doing this because the average reaction time of men is faster than that of women. Her knee whiffs as a look of befuddlement crosses her face.
While in midair, I bring my legs together. Some bone or other in her upper torso breaks with a crack.
Finally, I use my superior core strength to propel myself forward, bringing her with me as she remains ensnared in my vicelike leg grip. We both tumble through the air, but the angle ensures that she hits the ground with an awkward (and painful) thump, while I gracefully stick the landing. (Pic related. It's a diagram of this leg-flip maneuver, in case you're a woman who is unable to rotate objects in her mind.)
She's incapacitated but still conscious. She's also probably wet enough to single-handedly reverse desertification in the Sahel. This is because I just beat her up, and when it comes to deciding who to get wet for, she listens to her biology far more than anything she learned in Women's Studies 230 at some diploma mill of a "cozy liberal arts college" in New England.
This is important, because I want her to take to heart what I'm about to say:
>You know, you're a fine specimen of woman yourself, possibly among the finest. And yet, you couldn't even hurt me, a middling pseud, in my weakest point. Why should I read anything your gender has to write?
I walk off into the distance. From that day on, whenever she has sex, she'll be imagining me.

>>17074772
How based can one get?

>>17073535
If you don't wanna be honest and admit there are no good women authors, then just say something like, "I know right! The patriarchy is suppressing female authors, otherwise I'd be reading more of them" or something like that.

>>17073535
The only female writing i read are good night text from your MAMA

>>17073535
>have you read 'why have there been no great woman artists'? we lived in a patriarchy for 2000 years, obviously all the important historical figures would be men.

>>17074772
you are mentally ill.
Based personality disorder

>>17073535
I'll stare threateningly at her until she go away.
Then i'll do stuff as usual

Fetishists have ruined the internet and civilization in general. Freud is right

I did switch to reading my kindle on the subway rather than physical books because I was afraid someone might confront me with ‘yo that’s three white male authors in a row I seen you reading’
Though I was more afraid of the coloreds than women to be desu

>>17073535
>no emily bronte or jane austen
opinion discarded

Only wahmen run around shouting, "Girl Power!"
Everyone knows men are powerful.

Why advertise your insecurity, ladies? Not a good look. Oof, as the Twattlings say.

>>17075344
that's silly. people do judge you by your bookshelf though. and how many fb friends you have. really.

>>17073535
I happily tell people I have never felt compelled to read the "works" of women. My honesty short circuits them, they hear the word 'feel' and believe it ever admissible and open to easy scorn. But I go on...
>whinging just ain't on my list of admiral virtues deserving of my attention.