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Is she worth reading to understand women?

>> No.13854658
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13854658

Understanding women is a job better assigned to a man

>> No.13854671
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Women are not worth understanding. Women are like shrubs except stupider.

>> No.13854678

>>13854647
>Guy A is hot. Guy B is rich. Who do I choose????
every romance and comedy of manners written by a woman ever

>> No.13854681

>>13854647
Try George Eliot she is more /lit/

>> No.13854693

>>13854658
have sex :/

>> No.13854700

>>13854671
you should try idk ugh having sex (maybe)(if you can lmao probably not tho) :/

>> No.13854710

>>13854700
>t. a woman

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>>13854700

>> No.13854743

Woolf is literally the only woman who ever understood and actually wrote about womanhood. She was a lesbian, tho.

>> No.13854776

She's worth reading for any reason whatsoever. Don't listen to people on this board who have never read her, or are incapable of understanding subtext. People like >>13854678
Austen was a true master.

>> No.13854787

>>13854743
Charlotte Brontë too

>> No.13854794

In order to understand women you want to read Tolstoy and the final chapter of Ulysses

>> No.13854796

>>13854787
Charlotte wasn't a lesbian.

>> No.13854804

>>13854647
>Is she worth reading to understand women?
No. But she is worth reading, because she's a good writer

>> No.13854813

>>13854796
I'm saying that she understood womanhood as much as Woolf

>> No.13854911

>>13854678
Guy C is beta orbiter and because he is ugly he gets what he deserves.

>> No.13854916

>>13854647
let me explain women for you
>chimpanzee brain
>naturally subservient/obedient/slave-like
>just wants to reproduce with high-ranking males
that's it that's all there is to know about women
also they're incapable of independent thought

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>>13854647
the irony is that all women who produce art with real worth are more men than women anyway.

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>>13854671
BASED

>> No.13854926

>>13854916
nice

>> No.13854961

>>13854739
tl;dr;u gay

>> No.13854965

>>13854961
>dr

femanon detected

>> No.13855049

>>13854965
actually a good one, i kek'd

>> No.13855073

There is a lot there about how women compete with each other, how women are each other's worst critic, how women are so horrible to each other....

>> No.13855145

>>13854743
You should consider learning a second language lel...

>> No.13855156

>>13854647
>worth reading
possiblymaybe.
>to understand women
[the laughter of Japanese schoolgirls of a superior economic class than the listener]