/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18697782]

>There are men who carefully manoeuvre a large limousine out of the garage at eight o'clock every morning. Others leave an hour earlier, traveling in a middle-class sedan. Still others leave when it is not yet light, wearing overalls and carrying lunch boxes, to catch buses, subways, or trains to factories or building sites. By a trick of fate, it is always the latter, the poorest, who are exploited by the least attractive women. For, unlike women (who have an eye for money), men notice only woman's external appearance. Therefore, the more desirable women in their own class are always being snatched away from under their noses by men who happen to earn more.
>No matter what a particular man does or how he spends his day, he has one thing in common with all other men - he spends it in a degrading manner. And he himself does not gain by it. It is not his own livelihood that matters: he would have to struggle far less for that, since luxuries do not mean anything to him anyway it is the fact that he does it for others that makes him so tremendously proud. He will undoubtedly have a photograph of his wife and children on his desk, and will miss no opportunity to hand it around.
>No matter what a man's job may be - bookkeeper, doctor, bus driver, or managing director - every moment of his life will be spent as a cog in a huge and pitiless system - a system designed to exploit him to the utmost, to his dying day. (...) We have long ceased to play the games of childhood. As children, we became bored quickly and changed from one game to another. A man is like a child who is condemned to play the same game for the rest of his life.
Is there any truth to this book?

[Anonymous No.18697798]

There's no point to that excerpt. Like what else are we supposed to do?

Monke participate in monke economy and use access to resources to secure monke wife, reproduce, repeat

Civilization is soulless on its own but its functional. Is this book about how civilization is degrading or how women degrade men into working for them? Either way, weak men become servants to women and become pathetic. Strong men don't submit

[Anonymous No.18697810]

>>18697798
> A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex drive. If he succeeds in becoming as cold as she, she can no longer bait him with sex into the role of provider. At most she could offer herself as an equal sex partner, as dependent on him as he is on her. If men could abstain from sex at judicious intervals they might even succeed in normalizing the female sex drive - even make women desire them more than the other way around.
From her other book, The polygamous sex

[Anonymous No.18698683]

>>18697810
Kind of based.

[Anonymous No.18698687]

>Vilar is an Argentine-German writer
>Vilar's parents were German-Jewish emigrants