/lit/ - Literature

But almost all great books are by men.

>>7321710
>implying the top 20% of men don't outscore the top 20% of women
>implying the best and brightest aren't men

We're all qt bookish lesbians in summer dresses who work part time at the library. Please be quiet.

>>7321710
>why dont women browse a website inhabited by thousands of people who hate them because of their gender
Your post is dumb.

>>7321719
your post is worse

>>7321721
Okay

>>7321710
Isn't /lit/ one of the boards with the most girls?
The majority of pissy, irrational anons are from here.

>Men are just as good at reading as women sometimes even better!
lmao when will this progressive bullshit stop. The numbers have spoken

>Ireland
>Korea
>Japan
>smallest gender gap and highest score combinations
If we cross breed them, their children will transcend postmodernism within 20 years.

>>7321710
Lol im pretty sure this board it's just browse for girls tbqh

>>7321721
That post is true, though. Have you never seen other woman-related /lit/ threads? Schopenhauer quotes? Mindblowing anecdotal evidence?

>>7321710
There are many here, but there's no reason to announce gender with every post.

>>7321721
>denial

It's cool if you like women, but understand that the majority of your peers do not.

>>7321776
Stop trying to pretend you're a boy, Suzie. It's not the nineties any more and it doesn't excuse your backlog.

Statistically, there is at least one post in this thread that was made by a female. Can you spot it?

>>7321791
Everyone who enjoys reading has a large backlog.

>>7321798
stop samefagging whole threads, Suzanna.

>>7321802
There are twelve posters ITT.

>>7321798
>at least

>>7321803
Franny, this is between me and your "brother".
>twelve
Stop reading Russian religious texts for a while too; it's messing with your head.

>>7321812
Do you understand how to use 4chan, anon?

>>7321820
Yes, it's for making long jokes with a long set up about gender roles in lesser known Salinger works.

>>7321812
I'm 2 billion percent sure you made a thread with a pic of Dakota earlier. Are you in love with her or something? cause she's mine, son.

>>7321824
You can have him, Tao. Please leave, this is a female only space.

>>7321710
Maybe if you are into Janet Evanovich and Stephanie Meyer

>>7321783
>gender

I think you mean sex! You should learn the difference.

>>7321731
I wouldn't mind riding some Korean QTs

>>7321839
No, she means gender; this is a blue board, no lewds.

>>7321726
>Isn't /lit/ one of the boards with the most girls?

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA, no. The girls are all the way over there, furiously masturbating in /y/aoi, /cm/ cute male, and /hm/ handsome men. I hope you can feel the irony in that the most popular boards where women dwell, are dedicated exclusively to gay porn. Not that anyone can fault them, gay porn admittedly is fun.
Oh, and let's not forget /lgbt/ has a bunch of lesbians and transgirls too.

*shrug* what can you do?

>>7321827

>>7321851
>implying the most talented authors aren't fags
anon...

>>7321851
You forgot /cgl/, like 90% women

>>7321857
One of the best new authors in the world. Just finished Brief History, starting John Crow's Devil

>>7321857
Well, it is a fierce competition. Pun intended, lol.

>>7321868
hm, true. Cosplayers are part of fandoms. Fandoms always involve shipping, homoerotic subtext - which obviously leads to gay porn, which only further proves my point. I bet those girls in /cgl/ spend a great deal of time on one of the boards I listed.

>>7321897
girls confirmed for fandomming the beats b/c gay sex

>>7321710
All of the actual literary discussion here happens between women, and we're trying to get rid of all the shitposting men. If you're a man, you're what's wrong with /lit/

>>7321716
Australia's Top 20% (Female): 647
Australia's Top 20% (Male): 631
Australia's Top 5% (Female): 759
Australia's Top 5% (Male): 761
I have not done the math for other countries, but I believe the results would be consistent.

>>7321929
>If you're a man, you're what's wrong with /lit/
b-but we need the faggots who speak g-greek. and pose for yaoi :3
>>7321941
Australia's only good lit was two straight men pretending to be one faggot writing poetry as a hoax. Of course its results are shit-tier.

>>7321949
Okay, some cute boys are allowed, as long as they don't get in our way. The rest of you can leave.

>>7321949
I picked Australia at random. Here's the US:
Top 5% Female: 981
Top 5% Male: 987

Top 20% Female: 753
Top 20% Male: 740

If you can believe the statistics (data was hard to come by), on average, girls score higher than boys, but the highest scorers are boys.

>>7321949
Alex?

>>7321897
>I bet those girls in /cgl/ spend a great deal of time on one of the boards I listed.
Well they certainly arent on fucking /fit/.

Im betting /ck/ too

>>7321958
You can distract them with Rimbaud pics if they interrupt quiet reading time by being smelly.
>>7321965
The US only has like five good writers though, they spell words all wrong for an English speaking country, and they fap to 3d not Wilde and Gide. Somewhere with girl culture like Algeria, please.
>>7321967
Sure, why not?

>>7321965
More /lit/ data (for OECD countries):
The students that own "Classic literature (e.g. <Shakespeare>)" score, on average, 529, versus 485 for the students that don't.

The students that own "Books of poetry" score, on average, 518, vesus 489 for the students that don't.

The students that own "Books to help with your school work" score, on average, 506, vesus 481 for the students that don't.

The students that own "A dictionary" score, on average, 504, vesus 462 for the students that don't.

>>7321984

/ck/ consists largely of neckbeards discussing burger king and chipotle.

>>7321984
>Well they certainly arent on fucking /fit/.

Girls aren't into manlets. What else is new.

#shotsfired

>>7321984
There's a ton of girls on /toy/, who are there for Monster High/ Disney dolls/ BJD

>>7321988
How many books are there in your home?

(1) 0-10 books: 434
(2) 11-25 books: 466
(3) 26-100 books: 505
(4) 101-200 books: 530
(5) 201-500 books: 555
(6) More than 500 books: 550

Can we assume that some students in the last group were lying or didn't know how to count, which could explain the lower score if compared to the 5th response.

>>7321965
>>7321988
>>7322006
haha scores and stats right? the important things :)

>>7322050
Awwwwww, I'm sure you had a deeper understanding of the books, sweetheart, your high school English teacher was just a meanie <3

>>7322006
>which could explain the lower score if compared to the 5th response.
the second number is #students, the range indicated before the word "books" is #books. only boys are this bad at math, pls go >>>/sci/ and stay go.
>>7322055
You can stop dressing like a washer woman now you're out of prison, Toad, but you can't stay here.

Girl here femanon here I'm a woman btw

I don't post here more because I, as a woman girl here btw femanon here, feel excluded and persecuted because of my -- femanon here -- gender, which is female (i.e., I'm a girl). Femanon here. I think MEN (which I'm not) should do more to make WOMEN (which I am) more comfortable, femanon here btw. As a woman, everything should be about me (a girl), girl here, otherwise it's misogynistic.

>>7322131
hey Dave

>>7322131
I imagine the person who posted this is incredibly sad and banal

>>7322134
you mean a woman?

Seriously though,
How many of you are girls?

>>7321710
It's funny because women don't read philosophy。

>>7322151
I'm a cute girl.

>>7322154
WOW that's so misogynistic :S you should be banned for saying that

the only reason women don't do things is because men are keeping them down, NOT at all because they cop out of life's hardships and challenges by blaming men for everything

if you disagree with me philosophically instead of arguing with you i'll have you banned for misogyny fyi

>>7322151
I'm in high school

>>7322136
no, that's Dave >>7322133
>>7322154
Leon, this Simone girl called to talk to you about "fite me irl", whatever that means. Wiel I think her name was.
>>7322160
Beauvoir, stop pretending to be the only Simone on Earth.

>>7322134
""""""Banal""""""""""""""

>>7322156
What a coincidence, so am I. I thought everyone on here was.

>>7322223
I thought so too! Maybe all the mean boys are just in this thread. Wanna braid each other's hair and talk about what we're currently reading?

>>7322252
omg101! I'm currently reading Jane Austen because she's like so romantic and witty and i just love laughing at her cute, uber duper cutey jokes, you know!? And then when I get serious I read stuffs like the The Secret by this incredibly succesful woman called Rhonda Byrne who graciously helps millions of people with her incredibel vision and insight, wuld recommend to any independent free thinking women!

>>7322160

>the only reason women don't do things is because men are keeping them down, NOT at all because they cop out of life's hardships and challenges by blaming men for everything

Yo go grrl! xD

Women are the stronger sex. The reason it hasn't shown in culture yet is because men have kept them oppressed and under their boots for centuries.

>>7322271
poor Dave. another acid washout of the Oprah book club generation

>>7322275
>Women are the stronger sex. The reason it hasn't shown in culture yet is because men have kept them oppressed and under their boots for centuries.
I think most of us would agree women are however best on their knees.

>>7322287
Please Hildegard, respect the religious postures of the other nuns on this board who are not Catholic.

>>7322223

Nice 23

>>7321710
Nowadays pussy actually turns me off. I look at a naked girl and all I see is unappealing flesh, actually revolting.
You have no power over me anymore!
And pls stop wearing so much make-up, it's nasty.

>>7322334
>Nowadays pussy actually turns me off. I look at a naked girl and all I see is unappealing flesh, actually revolting.
Anon, please stop skinning cats. That cannot be pleasant for the cat and is cutting into your reading time.

>>7322338
A skinned cat looks better than that hole in-between their legs, it looks like they brew soup in it.

>>7322344
Please step away from the cat; there is no soup or books inside it. We'll have to call /b/ on you if you continue.

>>7322322

Nice dubs

>>7322344
It's actually where they bake bread. [insert drum tap here]
A horny man will fuck a garbage can my friend, it's one of the benefits of being horny: you don't give a fuck.

>>7322334
Same. I like the female body but vaginas look so weird.

>>7322334
shitposting has never felt so real

>>7322371
>>7322368
Shhhh, catamites, it's quiet reading time now.

>>7321851
>transgirls
>girls

This anon was right >>7321719
:(

Why is /lit/ so fucking white knight?
Do you have some stock in women's studies or what?

>>7322402
It's not white knights, it's actual women. Did you even read the thread?

>>7322402
Those white knights are probably girls.
IT IS POSSIBLE. No but really that's the impression I get. They're literally protecting the image of their pussy.

>>7322402
smelly boy detected. pls leave and do not touch our books, we are having females reading group.

>>7321710
>tfw Brazilian

>>7322416
>My country isn't even on the map.
>South Africa.

>>7322418
Should have thought of that before you tried enslave black people you fucking Nazi

Hope I'll be reading about your murder soon in a far right self-pity magazine for bitter white men

I think there are a lot of girls here. I'm a girl. But no one ever even alludes to it outside of threads like this because we're either scared of being called attention whores or it just doesn't come up. But you're right, I think there might be a bit more guys. It's weird, because every literature class I've ever taken has way more girls than guys.

>>7322429
Jy weet fokken niks nie jou sleg bliksem.
Ek sal uintjlik jou kom vind, en dan sal ons sien. Moffie.

>>7322408
>>7322405
>>7322412

I never assume I'm talking to a woman on 4chan.

I think most men here don't either.

>>7322439
I never even try to imagine what the actual person behind those words on my screen look like desu. I just respond to the posts.

>>7322439
That's because you lack theory of mind, due to your autism.

>>7322443
senpai

>>7322439
Don't you ever want to be the little girl though? Not even when you're reading Matilda by Roald Dahl in a very good for curling up in comfy chair? 4chan allows you that my friend :3

>>7322445

No it's because of the manly tone on 4chan ( the cursing, the "you fuckface" addressing ).

Women usually are snide backstabbing cowards outside of the context of a sexual relationship.

>>7322457
Most people on /lit/ don't talk like that though. The general tone on here is as girly as /cgl/, and that's because they're both full of women. I'm sorry that you feel threatened and outnumbered, and that the pretty girls are mean to you.

>>7322475
I actually get along better with females. That's before they open their legs however. I don't like that they have those THINGS there.

>>7322479
do you need another Rimbaud picture, fuccboi?

>>7322475

Why should I feel threatened by a bunch of snarky white chicks with a 1950's aesthetic?
If anything you bitches can't get along as soon as the group is around or larger than 4 people.

You lack camaraderie. Every other woman is a competitor.
So in no way do I feel threatened by a huge number of sober white women with strange relationships with their father.

>>7322479

THEY HAVE THINGS DOWN THERE!?

>>7321710
Women can't take the bantz, basically.

>>7322488
>Why should I feel threatened by a bunch of snarky white chicks
why don't you get your master euripides to pay your ransom, ugmo? us girls are gonna get some wings with everything on them while you work out the jokes.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27429/27429-0.txt

>>7322488
Then why are you complaining? Are you trying to protect your super secret clubhouse and its "manly tone"?

>>7322502

Stop. Every woman with a bit of intellect always overdoes it.

It's rather embarrassing to see. It reminds me of 16 year old nerds who already assume they're in college.
The needless namedropping, the same way a nouveau riche fails at signalling status you apply this overt and exaggerated intellectual tone to every sentence you utter.

Stop.

>>7322507

Men who need feminism aren't men.

>>7322527
But your reply was 1000x more pretentious than hers?

>>7322488
>the group is around or larger than 4 people.
/lit/ is only meant to be three people: you must have wandered in. it happens now and then, we'll just help you find your way >>>/out/

>>7322527
>he hasn't read the greeks
>not even aristophanes
>laughing chorus girls.board
see this is why lysistrata would never work on you because you'll die a virgin anyway. leave for somewhere that hates books

>>7322534

Was it?
I can't stand bitches dressed in polca dots writing poetry unironically. Maybe that's it.

>>7322543
you reading nothing more than men's magazine covers is a bigger problem tbqph bro. the internet won't actually take away your masculinity, you know?

>>7322543
This whole rockabilly and poetry thing sounds weirdly specific. I'm sorry that she hurt you, please calm down.

>>7322541

>muh Greeks

And again the name dropping. You hope to impress some dork here hu? Maybe a "add me on skype" comment.

And a bunch of pederasts seems like the perfect crowd for you damaged cunts.
Ever had an original idea of your own by the way? Or is it just consumption of others( mostly men ) their work so you can impress a potential suitor?

>>7321823
Franklin rapes Ginnie.

>>7322561
How are we the damaged ones, when you're the one crying about how terrible women are?

Don't piggyback on the accomplishments of other men. You've never done anything in your life that makes you better than the average woman.

>>7322561
>judging a book by its origin
>thinking the greeks aren't fun
dude, you seriously need to loosen up and read some dick jokes. start with aristophanes he's hilarious. this is some serious rage on the hope this thread isn't a sausagefest.

>>7321941
>>7321965
>>7321988
>>7322006
correlation v causation: the thread

>>7321727
underrated post

>>7322572

Women aren't terrible. If they're traditional and don't go with the "social construct" pomo meme, all is fine.
Problem is, a significant chunk of the sisterhood is malleable as fuck, moreso than men, and so they internalize this retarded "intellectual girl" meme by the thousands, not to mention the constant poetry slam tier social justice crap they all subscribe to.

I am a female and it feels weird, posting on /lit/, knowing that stating my gender in a gender-related discussion will cause some people to accuse me of seeking attention. I grew up sheltered without notions of gender roles, so I thought intellectual involvement was natural for everyone; I saw only minor functional differences between men and women; I was always egalitarian in my assessment of the world. Now, I'm not so sure. I see now that men and women are biologically compatible but socially estranged. I have reviewed statistics depicting the intelligence of men eclipsing women on both extremes. My understanding is that women are outsiders as regards intellectual discussion, and androcentric concepts of masculinity espoused in such circles deny men the ability to befriend women. I am indifferent on this matter, at least in the context of 4chan; my male friend has told me that many men just don't like people who are lazy, weak, and stupid, and women are excluded based on the view that the majority of women are that way. As for me personally, I am unable to control the prejudices that people hold against me. Gender prejudices do not bother me so much, as I know they are signs of misguidance. I can only do my best to engage with others in a cooperative manner, and be thankful for the resources *I do* have as a citizen of the free world.

>>7322594
No, dude, you're beta, and tried to storm a sausage fest like they were your next sex offence. Fuck off to somewhere that has a mental age the same as yours like >>>/b/

Some nigga tries to harsh on the Greeks who could run faster than him in full armour and are the >gains of this board, but only when he thinks the only people in the thread are petite girls. Seriously can't handle the /sp/ banter either I'd say.