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11190355 No.11190355 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/, I accuse you of fetishising a rapist.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-world-still-spins-around-male-genius/559925/

>> No.11190379

>>11190355
>citing anything from Jezebel
Also does the article actually accuse him or rape at any point? I didn't see that.

>> No.11190392

>>11190355
i have never and will never read dfw.

>> No.11190408

I find it interesting how Mary Karr dredged all this up again when she had a new book to flog. Also, the dead guy might provide a different story, were he not dead.

Whatever DFW did, he certainly loathed himself for. From his Dostoevsky essay: "...the unbelievably repellent Smerdyakov...in whom I personally see parts of myself I can barely stand to look at."

>> No.11190447

>>11190408
I genuinely feel good knowing that not even for a second I identified with Smerdy even being the fedora that I am

>> No.11190462

>>11190355
"the-world-still-spins-around-male-genius"

How blown the fuck out are women?
Jesus have they not even read Woolf's Room?
Consider this
>the-world-still-spins-around-jewish-genius
Pathetic right? It astounds me how fucking stupid these female mag writers are.
Tearing down pillars of male civilisation and not replacing them with anything even remotely replacing it let alone improving it.

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11190519

>unironically referring to a dictionary entry

>> No.11191272

>>11190447
Me too, I’m more of a Dmitri but without the chadness, constantly giving into my immediate desires and then being wracked with immense guilt

>> No.11191281

that's not albertine

>> No.11191315

DFW's treatment of Karr certainly isn't romanticized in Max's biography. DFW is portrayed as a total fucking creep, because, at this time, he was. Did Karr seek legal aid for this? No. She divorced her husband and dated Dave. K.

>> No.11191327

It's so fucking annoying that this is painted as some form of male privilege instead of human distress.