/lit/ - Literature

>you should check out the french poststructuralists, they were foundational to feminist theory
>no that's okay i wouldn't want to read white men's ideas i'd like to hear perspectives from those less privileged

>>5232327

Girl I was seeing a couple months back:
>What kind of books do you like?
>Mostly philosophical, historical and biographies by famous political icons.
>Ew those are so boring
>Well what do you enjoy reading?
>Like 50 Shades of Gr-
>I leave the table and Starbucks and never contact her again

>>5232327

whoa dude are you me. My ex-girlfriend and I went through this EXACT same scenario. It was cringe-worthy

>i've read all about nietzsche and consider myself a nietzschean philosopher above all else
>13 year old brother

he loves the guy, i'm convinced half the posts on this board are his.

>>5232336
Gayatri Spivak then.

>>5232351
>likes Nietzsche
>is 13
sounds about right

>>5232340
dude she wanted your d for dictionary

>>5232351
TELL HIM TO GGTTFOOOO AND BEAT HIS SHIT

>>5232355
>relying on a 90s stereotype about Nietzsche to justify the fact that you've never read a single book of his

how does it feel to be the scientology of philosophy

>>5232352
Actually they had her read that Subaltern essay by her for some Feminism 101 class

Without any sort of background in Marxist theory

>>5232368
so easy

>be talking to a bunch of book lovers
>someone brings up a time when he made fun of some girl
>laughs like an idiot to himself
>"You do realize that she has had different life experiences than you, yes? She has had different interests over the years of her life that have moved her away from literature. By acting like an asshole you have possibly completely turned her from the rich world of books and stories in general. Now she not only has lost a new interest in which she was coming to you for assistance in getting started because she valued your opinion but now her own personal views of your character have potentially diminished due to your attitude towards that interest that she was expressing. Now you have possibly lost what could have been a good friend over your need to feel superior over people who have studied differing fields than your own."
>I get on the floor
>everybody walk to dinosaur

>>5232403
>>everybody walk to dinosaur
is this some cultural reference i'm not getting?

>>5232403
fuck off fag

>>5232450
>I'm upset that someone called me on being a hipster douchebag

>>5232447
>Newfags will never just shut up when they're being new ever again

>>5232458
>liking nietzche
go back to reddit

Once i buy a book.
it was awful.

>>5232463
Why do you think Nietzsche is fedora? I've never read Nietzsche but he doesn't give me that sort of vibe.

>>5232473
>I've never read Nietzsche

He probably hasn't either and is just hedging on a "muh ubermensch" borderline SJW misunderstanding.

>>5232485
>reading nietzche

>>5232473
No one does, at least seriously. It's just a pretty funny image made to troll the swathes of Nietzche fans on lit.

>>5232495
But... philosophers read Nietzsche seriously. There was even a very important French thought in 20th century that centered (lol) around Nietzsche, among other things.

>>5232403

>>5232510
wow someone from france thought about nietzsche during the 20th century lmao

>>5233200
Not just someone, many important French and German thinkers were influenced by Nietzsche, some of them quite heavily. Everything from sociology to literature.

>>5233885
important thinkers, huh? cooool

>>5232463
i will never forgive myself for starting this meme

>>5232463
>>5232490
>>5232495
>>5233200
>>5233901
it's pretty easy to be this reactive. but you're not forming any thought here. if actually have anything to say about Nietzsche just say it. i'm pretty sure none of you came even a mile close to an understanding of what Nietzsche talked about.

>>5232463
>doesn't know the difference between a trilby and a fedora

>>5232327
>you should recommend me some good books
>you seize the opportunity to recommend her something that will change her perspective on life
>she is thankful to you and sees as you some sort of teacher
>Dock the D

>>5232327

>Not knowing who Stephen King is

Does she live under a rock on Mars?

>>5232327
>Well you're since you're a girl I'd say anything by Stephen King
>Well you're since you're a girl
>Well you're since you're

Besides that, starting a reccomendation with ''well, because you're a girl'' is fucking stupid.

>I read Neeche
>fuck off fag that's for baby philosophers
>but he so smart
>for his time his intelligence was decent but compared to other philosophers he retarded
>thanks for help

>>5234191
Because you're a man you'd probably like Tom Clancy.

>>5232351
He probably loves him the same reason idiots here hate him. It's good that he knows him early, he'd probably love the guy more once he "re-reads" or understand his works once he's out of the teenage rebellious phase

>Dad, you heard about that Swedish historical about an Egyptian and shit?
>You mean The Egyptian Sinuhe?
>Yeah, that's the book.
>I've read it before you were born. And it's Finnish. you fucking pleb

Fuck you, Dad.

>>5232403
this post

>grills r stupid amirite??? upboats that way <----

>>5234191
she probably pretended to not know King to get away from this sexist creep

>OP had an opportunity to craft his gf into a patrician
>She was actively asking for GOOD books
>He said Stephen King

It still amazes me how you all can be so well-read and still be sexist fuckheads.

You can only make ironic sexist remarks so many times before it stops being ironic.

>>5234299
Because you're black, I'd say anything by Malcolm X.

>Implying Stephen King is an amazing genre writer

>>5234376
Nobody is implying that.
He's shit.

>>5232327
The truth is that OP was recommending her Stephen King, but she was so patrician that she doesn't pay attention to any genre fiction authors or books.

>>5232327
>Be a girl.
>Have a friend named anon who's always reading and talking about this smart sounding book he's reading.
>It's a little annoying, but we're friends so I humour him.
>Decide one day to ask if he could recommend me some good book
>"You should recommend me some good books, anon :)"
>He looks up from this big book he's reading called Infinite Jest
>"Well you're since you're a girl I'd say anything by Stephen King.
>I'm since I'm a girl?
>Why would I like Stephen King since I'm a girl?
>Stephen King fucking blows.
>I want to know what kind of books anon is reading, not fucking Stephen King.
>Whatever, I'm just going to joke that I don't know him and then go home.
>"I don't know who that is. :)"
>He scoffs, shakes his head, mutters "Women." to himself, then goes back to reading.
>I get up, leave his house.
>Why did I even bring this condom.

>>5234415
pretty accurate.
ya goofed, OP.

>see male friend has new Kindle
>ask what he's reading
>Hunger games

>>5234426
break his kindle in half

amazon will provide him a replacement and you will have saved his soul

>>5234338
What was sexist about OPs post?

>>5233936
If you really are the guy...

Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Frankenstein has come to this board!

>>5234479
>Well you're since you're a girl
>recommends a bunch of shit books
She came to him asking for real suggestions, and he claimed that since she's a girl she can't read good books.

>>5234338
>implying being well-read doesn't come with the liberty to be a sexist pig on the inside while being really good at faking it when you need to
Schopenhauer and Wilde would like to share some words with you.

>>5234315
Thanks for the laugh

>>5234365
>not recommending Gil Scott-Heron

>>5234585
Hahah fuck, what a victim complex

>>5233977
>liking Nietzche
lol

>>5234085
>autism

>>5234322
How was she asking for good books when he mentioned that he reads philosophy and history and her reaction was "Ew"? Any potential in her was disqualified right there.

>>5232327
>girl shows an interest in something you're interested in
>smugly reply with an author that you consider subpar

I bet you get all kinds of sex huh

>>5234415
Why do people keep acting like this is what happened? Before he said Stephen King the girl said "Ew" and "Boring!!" to history and philosophy.

Out of curiosity and on the off chance that I ever find myself in the situation, what would you recommend to someone who has never read anything of substance, /lit/? Presumably there is a good start that will not bore or confuse him or her too much but will also be of value.

>>5234984
The Idiot
Lovecraft
Shakespeare
Wilde
Actually I wouldn't recommend anything at all, I would laugh at them and then leave.

>>5234085
wow

>>5234911
>>5234905

m8 you're mixing up OP and the third post (not OP)

>>5235045
No I'm not you piece of shit.

>>5234997
Really? Why? I would have thought most people would enjoy sharing their passion with others.

>>5235059
I don't waste my time on plebs.

>>5235059
Not as much as the enjoy treating those they see as beneath them with sneering contempt.

>>5235051
woah friend let's take a calm, relaxed look at this

>>5232327 (OP)
This is the post that >>5234415 and >>5234322 were replying to, which in turn you replied telling them that 'the girl said "Ew" to history and philosophy books'.

The person whose gf said "Ew those are so boring" was the author of >>5232340 which was the third post.

>>5232340 (the third post) was in reply to >>5232327 (OP) and they are therefore not the same person (or at least there is literally no indication they are the same person, plus why would someone reply to their own post without pointing out they are the same person)


glad we could sort everything out, peace

>>5235062
But with your help they could ascend to something more. This is what is wrong with this board.

>>5235101
>(you)

>>5235103
I don't give a fuck I just care about being pretentious, if you aren't pretentious then you need to get out.

>>5235101
I'll fooken rip your gabber, ya posh knob

>talking about books with gf
>she is german, i'm not
>"nice you can read Kafka original"
>"who?"
>"Franz Kafka?"
>"never heard of him"

>>5235045
Oh haha you're totally right. My bad.

>>5235209
>trading books with bf
>give him The Elementary Particles and The People of Paper
>get IV by Chuck Klosterman
>he calls me later complaining about TEP is too depressing

>>5235380
Fags always have the worst taste.

>>5235380
Babe you need to drop the zero and get with the hero (pointing to myself).

>>5235380

Oh my god your bf sounds awful.

>>5235380
What do girls see in Houellebecq? His fiction is almost /r9k/ tier in its bitterness and misogyny, yet for some reason extremely popular among women. Same deal with Bukowski. Hell, even H. Murakami's shit is pretty male-centric.

>>5235434
i think women latch onto the elementary particles more than anything because they sympathize with that little part with annabelle towards the end
at least i know i did

not to mention that bruno's misogyny over michel's was relatively interesting, in a sort of typical way -- there was a psychology to it that was written out, which gives a sort of fake insight to the irl men women personally know who are very much like bruno

plus, most people like reprehensible characters. every person in TEP has that flaw in spades

couldn't ever find myself engaging with murakami's work though
i read it, just didn't find it nearly as interesting

>>5235460
Did you sympathise with Bruno at all or was he just fascinating as a sort of grotesquery?

>>5235103
Mate, if you think anyone on /lit/ has the audacity to speak to someone in the manner they like to speak on here, you're heavily misguided. It's like kids on the playground talking about how they're going to say ''fuck you'' to the teacher, or beat up this kid 5 years older than them.

>>5232327
>You should recommend me some books, anon.
>Give her good recommendations based on what I know she reads.
>Wow, thanks!
Feels good being a well adjusted human bean.

Also, I can't trash talk people based on what they read, since I've read everything from booklets written in the 1800s that espouse pro-slavery arguments to naruto fanfiction

>>5235474
if you would have caught me some years ago, i would have said the latter but it seems now i hover somewhere in the middle

the more men i know like bruno, the more on the fence i get about my judgment of his particular type of character
my boyfriend himself dealt with relatively similar abandonment issues and has sexualized them to a much lesser extent, which is probably why he finds the book so jarring

my bone to pick with that though is, if you are well-aware of the root of your issues, why continue toward self-destructive behavior? regardless of how he felt about her, bruno had to have known that christiane and her similarly deviant sex life wouldn't have left any sort of positive change in him at all. he may have been a dog, but he definitely wasn't an idiot

just makes you think about how people approach their problems in real life, i suppose

>At Squash society, standing outside waiting to play
>Cute med student girl is there
>Make small talk about our degrees, she asks me what I like to read
>Give her bullshitty pseudo-answer i usually give girls and normal people
>She tells me about the historical biography she's reading at the moment and how much she enjoys factual books and philosophy, and proceeds to talk about them in a way that leaves me with no doubt as to whether she understands them
I don't have an image to describe how I felt but It was like 20 years of bitterness and misanthropy were sloughed away in that moment.

I sat at the library reading just starting Ulysses, I've read it before. I couldn't concentrate on the novel because of how drowsy I felt, I really wanted a coffee but the full cup sat next to me was cold. I hate cold coffee. It was while I was weighing the decision of chugging the cold coffee, or going without one that she approached me. Well it was less that she approached me and more that she sat down in the chair right next to me, but it felt like she approached me. I was never going to get any reading done with her loud breathing and my cold coffee to distract me. I looked at what she was reading, it was some college textbook. She must have been studying, I'm glad I didn't bother with that scam. You don't need college to be an author, after all. I looked at her next, she was attractive but pretty much exactly what I expected a woman to look like. Blonde hair, a small face, full lips, tight clothing, breasts. It's not that I wasn't interested, I just didn't have time for a relationship. She caught me staring though.

She smiled and said hello, I quickly turned back to my book leafing for my page even though I was already on it. The wench didn't catch my hint though and she asked me what I was reading. I told her it was Ulysses by James Joyce, and I clarified that I wasn't reading but was rereading. She asked me if it was any good, and I muttered that it was one of Vladimir Nabokov's favourite novels and is considered a masterpiece. She edged a little closer to me and said I sounded pretty smart. I shrugged and made a noise of casual agreement. Dammit, woman, if you think I'm so smart let me read. I looked at her smile, it was the kind of smile only an ignorant woman could have. How could anyone actually intellectual be happy in a situation like this?

That was when she hit me with it, the dreaded question, "You should recommend me some good books."

A wave of mixed emotions washed over me. I cringed at first, then my mind came into focus. This wasn't some book smart intellectual looking for a good novel, no, this was a woman and clearly not a very bright one. With this realization I chuckled softly and turned back to my books, I've won you daft member of the fairer sex. I've won.

"Well, since you're a girl I'd say anything by Stephen King."

I chuckled again and went back to leafing through the book, picking somewhere later in the novel that I actually was. Just to reread a favourite passage. There was a silence, at first I thought she might be writing his name down. My god, did she actually take me seriously? Did she not already know who Stephen King was? And that's exactly what she said, "I don't know who that is." She said that as she got up and left. My god, what a harlot. I immediately put my book back where I found it and started heading home. For I had new business to attend to.

/lit/ will want to hear about this.

>>5232351
How do kids like him not see that they're fucking 13 so any opinions they have on philosophy are pointless.

>>5236496
>I looked at her next, she was attractive but pretty much exactly what I expected a woman to look like. Blonde hair, a small face, full lips, tight clothing, breasts.

I don't know why but I laughed here

>>5236496
>Blonde hair, a small face, full lips, tight clothing, breasts.

Wow! She had breasts, what a surprise! Quel surprise!

>>5235514
So, did you fuck her?

>>5232327
>Go to store
>Buy books
>No one even attempts to make small talk over books that don't have movies made

>Read Life of Pi years before the film at a library
>Nothing happens
>It's still an overdue book that I'm too scared to return now

>Go to bookstore
>Anyone reading anything are the manga whalelords and the Starbucks next to it just has teens fucking around

I wish something /lit/ magically happens to me just like my American novellas

>>5235498
>not being a retard like most In this thread

>Talking to other dude from class who makes salient points
>We talk about books we like
>He mentions Dostoyvesky
>Tell him I liked Notes from Underground but hated Crime and Punishment
>He says he loves crime and punishment
>Tell him that I dropped C&P because of its awful filler and obvious "paid by the word" writing. How pages could be made totally up of how many steps Rashka took to go to a place, or that there were 4 pages dedicated to the return policy of a boot-store
>He respects my opinion but doesn't agree
>We then go on to talk about other authors he likes
>Says he likes Joyce
>Immediate contempt seizes me (I hate this bastard so much, so fake)
>Start talking about Rand for some reason
>Tell him I hate her a lot, but her prose is better than Dostoyevsky's by miles
>He looks at me like with pure hatred
>My duty is done

Fuck that guy. Still said hi to him everytime I saw him, and he continued making interesting points about literature in class, but I still hated his guts.

>>5236905
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>5232327

>Well you're since you're a girl
>Stephen King
>Doesn't know Stephen King

This thread

>>5236496
>I looked at her smile, it was the kind of smile only an ignorant woman could have.

>>5236496
>cringed
So close man

>>5236905
Honestly, I'm amazed the other dude isn't the one on /lit/ right now whining about some retard in his class who hates Joyce and thinks Rand has better prose than Dostoyevsky.

>>5232327
Leader of right-populist party here, in an interview

>Q: What books do you read?
>A: Mostly philosophical stuff, quantum physics.

cant make this shit up

>>5233977
his concept of Wille zur Macht is a downgrade to Schopenhauers Wille zum Leben. Nietzsche calling himself a scholar to Arty is a disgrace to the Caspar Hauser of philosophy, since he completely goes against Schopenhauer's legacy by being an obscurant borderline-hegelian. Go read every passage Schopenhauer wrote slandering Hegel, and replace GWF with Fritz and tell me it doesnt apply all the same.

Nietzsches writing is literally quotemaking. He took the late Schopenhauer, and copied his aphoristic style without the system to back it up. Or at least any substance. Nietzsche is poetry, not philosophy, and if you take it as poetry, Also sprach Zarathustra has merit, and the rest is trash. The non-aphoristic stuff is just trash.

He's the 19th cent. equivalent to chomsky. Fucking philologists and linguists shouldn't venture out and act like they know the first thing about philosophy. MY GOD Nietzsche never read Kant, yet he critiques him.

Come to think of it, that makes it clear how he became popular here :^)

>>5237015
>rand > Dostoyevsky

gr8b8m8

>>5237078
you're critique of his form is useless
he's not that obscure if you take the time to interpret
what is with this archaic notion that you have to read all philosophy in order to create your own thought? what are "first things" one should know about philosophy? you're presupposing that there is a "way" to do philosophy, which is nonproductive. Nietzsche is like many continental philosophers in that his breadth of work comes from left field and isn't really adding to the accumulation of wisdom that the "tradition" feeds off in order to contribute something

>>5237078
also, the fact that he had such influence in the realm of thought and that his works develop a worldview is enough to qualify him as a "philosopher" - which in the end is a stupid thing to concern yourself about. if you really feel the need to categorize someone as something, feel free, but it's slowly becoming pointless in the present age of interconnectedness when it comes to the substance of critical thought

>>5236905
>that shit taste
i dont think hes the problem anon.

>>5236496
>new business to attend to

>>5236905
you're intellectually insecure. you meet someone someone who you could consider at your level of awareness of literature and you hate him for it. you came off as the pretentious asshole in the interaction by only focusing on things you hated instead of talking about the merit of the works and actually engaging in meaningful discussion. do you see how sad your justification for hating him is? why aren't you the one making interesting points about literature in class?

>>5236905
So you met some guy who can challenge you on an intellectual level and instead of learning from one and other you simply went full-retard and shooed him away?
Bravo, you fucking imbecile.

>>5234191
girl detected.

go back to /fa/.

> Be from Eastern Kentucky
> used bookstore nearby sells good shit
> read in local coffee shop, people ask about the book and I tell them
> strong community of local Appalachian authors have an Open Mic every month
> share a beer with Silas House, went to a party and Frank X Walker showed up

feelsgoodman

>>5236905
>Talking to other dude from class who makes salient points
>We talk about books we like
>I mention Dostoyvesky
>He tells me he liked Notes from Underground but hated Crime and Punishment
>I tell him I love crime and punishment
>Tells me that he dropped C&P because of its awful filler and obvious "paid by the word" writing. How pages could be made totally up of how many steps Rashka took to go to a place, or that there were 4 pages dedicated to the return policy of a boot-store
>I respect his opinion but don't agree
>We then go on to talk about other authors I like
>I say I like Joyce
>Immediately he gets really red, starts breathing heavily, and muttering that he hates Joyce
>He starts talking about Rand for some reason
>He tells me he hates Rand, but her prose is better than Dostoyevsky's by miles
>I look at him with pure hatred
>He gets up and leaves

Fuck that guy. He still says hi to me every time I see him, and he continued making interesting points about literature in class, but I still hated his guts.

>>5236496
>and I clarified that I wasn't reading but was rereading.

I'm crying.

>>5236496
>I sat at the library reading just starting Ulysses, I've read it before
>I was never going to get any reading done with her loud breathing and my cold coffee to distract me.
> I quickly turned back to my book leafing for my page even though I was already on it.
>I clarified that I wasn't reading but was rereading.
>it was one of Vladimir Nabokov's favourite novels and is considered a masterpiece.
>went back to leafing through the book, picking somewhere later in the novel that I actually was. Just to reread a favourite passage.
This is exactly how I imagine /lit/ 'reads'

>manage a liquor store
>read books all day
>reading Stephen King short story collection
>dirty, gross-looking redneck comes in
>thick retarded drawl when he talks
>notices my book when he's at the counter
>this guy loves reading stephen king
>end up chatting about him for about 10 minutes
>bretty cul dood too
>mfw rednecks can read
And that was the day I learned to not judge people by their looks or accents.

>>5232340
>being in a Starbucks
you let this happen to yourself

>>5242185
>mfw rednecks can read
Yeah, they can read Stephen King.
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>5234338

Ey, shugah-tits, we're men talkin' here, alrigh'? Now you run along na', lemme see your lil' thang jiggle as you skeedaddle...

When did it become fucking acceptable for girls to identify themselves on this board? When did we lose the tits or gtfo ethos?

>>5233198
>not being an asshole is now white-knighting

>>5242699
The very phrase "not being an asshole" marks you out as a pathetic beta faggot. You're the kind of guy who identifies as a "male feminist."

>>5236496
nice

>stay home
>read books

That's all.

>>5242699
It's not actually just " not being an asshole" though. OP and that guy are both just trying to be funny, and that guy also obviously understands this as evidenced by his employment of "walk the dinosaur". It seems all parties involved are 'in on it', save for yourself.

>>5236884
>It's still an overdue book that I'm too scared to return now
just put it in the bookdrop you faggot.

>>5235514
Is your name Joe?

>>5242692
when we stopped browsing /b/ 6 years ago

>>5234338
>You can only make ironic sexist remarks so many times before it stops being ironic.
I'm going to borrow that one from you.

>>5234415

But DFW loved Stephen King.

>>5236496
high kek

>>5235380
>complaining about TEP is too depressing
God, my gf does the same thing, it took nearly a year for us to finish watching Breaking Bad because it was too sad. It's hard to get her to do anything that's not lighthearted.

>>5242692

a whole binder full of women could start posting on /lit/ as long as they adopted the mores of the board and, crucially, didn't become tripfags or make a huge fuss about their gender. We're here to talk about books what does being a girl have to do with anything? I'm sure all of us get enough of the "feminist perspective" in college. I mean why is bad that a certain website remains a male preserve? I think of 4chan as a stripclub of the internet. Girls can come if they want but and the end of the day were going to be looking at tits and talking amongst ourselves and it's not going to be like a regular nightclub where the female customers are the centre of attention. 4chan and /b/ is bad someone says? Any retarded thing 4chan does is easily outdone by the egregious stupidity of tumblr.

pic related its me and my bitch

I told my former pastor he should read 'What I Believe' by Leo Tolstoy

>who is Tolstoy?

This is why I go to Catholic mass now

>>5234379
I like his conversationalist narative style, also the dark tower series the the first book I read that introduced me to literary symbology

>>5234415
You're ignoring the incapacity of women to have any genuine interest in anything.

>>5242939
This is true insofar as women are far less likely to be autistic than men. I assume your definition for "genuine interest" is autistic obsession.

>>5234085
>implying it matters when they're both equally cancerous

>>5242916
>likes Tolstoy
>is Catholic
You're cool. Also, right, pastors are unqualified plebs.

>>5234415
Why would you pretend not to know who he is? And why, after pretending not to know who Stephen King is...for some reason, would you not expect to look completely ignorant for saying so?

I mean, I knew women sucked at logic but DAMN

>>5242699
You and your kind are destroying 4chan. If you don't want your sensitive womanly feelings hurt, you can go to tumblr with the rest of the fairer sex

>>5235059
look at your url
where are you

>>5242966
The only people who ever accomplished anything had an autistic obsession with their field of study. Women are dilettantes who care more about getting attention for themselves than doing anything useful.

>>5237045

my sides

>>5234595
>wilde
>sexist
nearly all of his "sexist" quotes are from the character Lord Henry, who is full of shit
Have you even read Wilde

>>5243886
Who fucking cares. It's like people these days have become so ideologically blinkered that they can't imagine anyone they hold in esteem not having the "correct" beliefs so they ahistorically impose those beliefs on figures of the distant past. Wilde lived in the 19th century so frankly he probably was massively "sexist" by any contemporary standard.

>>5242692
I don't care if women browse /lit/, /a/, /g/, whatever. 4chan is an anonymous imageboard, whoever the person behind the post is doesn't matter. And while I'm sure most femanons do it right, and stay anonymous, I've encountered far too many women on 4chan that tripfag and namefag reeeeally badly. It's a stereotype, but it's being enforced here with all these tripfag/namefag grills on 4chan who openly don't give a fuck about the overall quality of the board and how much other anons can enjoy it, so long as they get their attention and recognition. They post pictures of themselves, and blog A LOT.

Now, mind you, there is just as many if not more male tripfags that are cancerous too. But the difference between a male tripfag and a female one is as follows. A male tripfag posts an inflammatory comment because he's a fag, and all the anons start sperging out over him and derail everything until mods delete the thread. Usually the tripfag's only defender is himself with his trip off or one of his friends, it's really plain to see. But with a female tripfag, well, a female tripfag posts something inflammatory and all the anons start sperging out. But something very different happens next. The white knights show up to defend this inflammatory maiden. People latch on to female tripfags really badly, they defend her, and make threads about her, etc. It takes things to a whole other level of cancer.

Let me tell you a story about a general I used to regular called /cyb/ - Cyberpunk General on /g/. We talked about cyber security, upcoming and new technology, and various cyberpunk related media. It was fun. But it became infested with a namefag who shall not be named, an openly female 'hacker' namefag who shared her twitter and did all sorts of cancerous stuff. She just contributed to the thread at first, she was compiling a little archive of cyberpunk essential ebooks as well as some /tg/ shit for some cyberpunk tabletop. It was a little contribution but it was appreciated. A lot of people contributed stuff to the generals, it was nice. Then she started becoming inflammatory, unintentionally or not. Every time she posted the thread was derailed and turned into shit. Then the white knights came and spammed about how she's the sole contributor to the thread because the rest of us did it as anons. Before she even arrived threads would be filled with people praising her or hating her. It was impossible to have an on topic discussion and then slowly the threads emptied, now they're gone. Dead. Killed.

Is it the namefags fault this happened? Not directly, she didn't do anything to kill the threads herself. But this isn't a unique story. Tripfags and namefags are cancerous in an anonymous community and will always bring down it's quality greatly. Anons should stop sperging out over every tripfag they see, sure, but sperging out is what anons do and always will do. And female tripfags only make it that much worse.

>>5232327
>go to school bookclub
>everyone exclusively talks about The Fault In Our Stars and Tolkien

I've never dropped something so hard before.
They dedicated an entire month to John Green.
An entire fucking month.

>>5245037
>>>/v/

>>5244069
It always happens when women are introduced to a male community. It's not necessarily their fault - although they often revel in the attention - but they always ruin the group dynamic. So I think it would be for the best if femanons just kept their gender to themselves and let everyone assume they were male.

>read a lot of generic fantasy shit in army
>about 30 books in six months, not much
>people are for some reason staggered that i could read so "fast"
meanwhile one other guy reads 1 book in three months

And i actually thought i was a slow reader

>>5245124
When anons state that they're girls it's annoying, but I have little trouble with it if it's not done in a way to garner attention. It's when they're tripfags/namefags.

Then they aren't just a lone post going "btw im a gril", then they're a recurring identity which already is making a jarring grab for attention among an anonymous community, and being identifiable as a woman.

Men don't end their posts with "btw im a guy" so girls shouldn't either. In an anonymous community a post is just a post, it should be taken at face value with no bias towards the poster. Thats what makes it so great. When you put yourself on a podium of uniqueness by giving yourself a name, or stating you're a woman then no matter how good or bad your posts are you're inviting bias towards your person and killing the possibility for a real discussion.

Usernames and shit are fine, if everyone has one. If everyone is anonymous, you can't be the exception without adversely effecting the quality of the community.

Btw I'm a guy.