/lit/ - Literature

CAN ONLY 50!

>>4574133
what's with the female pronouns?

Oh boy. No. Just NO.
>using gender biased pronounced

gt fcked

>>4574153
>pronounced
gt fcked

>>4574152
I'm OP and I wish to be the little girl, so I'm using female pronouns!!

>>4574133
Given the way this thread has devolved into Gender theory, I'd say everything by Lacan, Butler and Kristeva.

>she
>not xhe
check your privilege shitlord

>John Green - Looking for Alaska
>John Green - An Abundance of Katherines
>John Green - Paper Towns
>John Green - Will Grayson, Will Grayson
>John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
just re-read those 10 times

>>4574163
fuck. the sad part is that some universities use that.

>>4574182

Our sense of self-importance is evolving faster than our body structure. Go figure.

every person in this thread should kill himself
what a disaster

>>4574160
> tfw you will never be Dolores Haze
> tfw you will never have a relationship with Jeremy Irons

>>4574133
>she
>not they
transphobe

I dunno. It takes a large number of books to become a good reader in the first place.

But the only book necessary for enlightenment for a modern individual would be Prometheus Rising and Ficciones.

Why are people so fixated on gender and sexuality nowadays? Is it a consequence of >first world problems?

>>4574228
yes thats exactly it
nail on the head right there

>>4574229
can't tell if sarcasm

>>4574133
I would suggest things like.
My first words, Everybody poops and other easy things.

>>4574152
Maybe a German where person is a female noun

>>4574228

because people are more disconnected, educated, and anti-social than ever.

Plato's Complete Works

>>4575534
This. Everyone should read that and then claw out their eyes, since they will only be distractions afterwards.

>>4574228
Pretty much.
It seems we've run out of, or stopped caring about actual problems.

>>4575521
No, using female pronouns for hypotheticals is standard practice in academic writing these days, because if you use male pronouns you get complaints.

Everything published by Zizek.

>>4574180
This. Do it. They're great books and JG is an amazing author, but they're worth it because of all the philosofical thought behind them. I mean, TFiOS basically teaches you the meaning of nichilism, and why EVERYONE must ask himself existential questions. It teaches how too be a human, how you're not a person if you don't interrogate yourself about your life and you just keep surviving and not living. Looking for Alaska is deeply spiritual, and personally I find the question "How do you get out of the labirynth of pain?" the most important, difficult and impressive question anyone could ever ask. Really, read them.

>>4575554
Read a newspaper, dunce.

>>4575578
I wholeheartedly agree. Everyone needs John Green.

>>4575578
This it's really great, the only fault is that it's popular, which is actually a good thing.

>>4574133
>she

so progressive

i see this shit all the time in analytic philosophy too

ebin leddit meme related

>>4574180
>>4575578
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>>4575598

is this b8?

>>4575604
When "she" is used in examples I get a better mental image of the example than when "he" or "you" is used.

>>4575610
No, don't let yourself be trolled by "board culture"

>>4575622
sexist pig

>>4575641
It's a testament to the beauty of the female forms.

"One" already exists to fill this space. People just don't use it because they think it sounds posh, but it's there for you if just you man up and grow some big hairy fucking balls.

>>4575644

S

is definitely female right