/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21036537]

Is this true? Honestly, I don't even pay attention to the author when picking something to read.

[Anonymous No.21036547]

>>21036537
Nothing that was ever conjured by a female mind interests me in the least, including this shitty thinkpiece

[Anonymous No.21036550]

Yes, if you think the phrase "there are no good women authors" is true you literally do not belong on this board because you are a readlet, history is just too vast and varied to say this and it's clear such a person is extremely ignorant. I don't even fucking like foids, it's just the truth. But sadly many people on this image board believe shit like this unironically because they are fools.

sage

[Anonymous No.21036556]

>>21036537
I think we're nearing the point where white male literature is officially banned. The final correction.

[Anonymous No.21036558]

>>21036550
The score is still 96 to 4 for Team Dick.

[Anonymous No.21036562]

>guardian
>hole
Two of the worst things in existence together

[Anonymous No.21036566]

>>21036550
Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.21036569]

>>21036537
Beats me. I read tons of female authors. Flannery O'Connor, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, and more.

[Anonymous No.21036576]

>>21036556
you're acting like a woman, ironically

[Anonymous No.21036578]

There are good women writers that you should read if you want to be well read, yes. The problem is that they're like 1-2% of the canon and not 50% like some dumb bitches are trying to imply.

>hurr durr I don't read female writers
That's just incel retardation.

[Anonymous No.21036579]

>>21036569
Easy on the St. Teresas

[Anonymous No.21036586]

>>21036578
>>21036550
Go ahead and name 5 good female authors.
And no, Bronte shit about some gay romance is not good literature

[Anonymous No.21036593]

>>21036537
around 70% to 80% of the libraries i go to are only female writters, regardless of the section. the more events there are (promotions, new arrivals, thematic week etc) the more the % goes towards 80%. they are everywhere and shoved down your throat in such a pathetic way. i remember some time ago, in the english section, usually the prices are high due to import fees, low number of exemplars like 2-3 etc. anyway, they were having a promotion in a thematic week on poetry - one classic dude and a contemporary one, which in the 3 packs that i've looked at, were females. if you would buy the dude book stand alone, it would cost more than if you would buy the pack with the contemporary chick in it and the latter was not available as a stand alone title. what a fucking bunch of retards.

[Anonymous No.21036594]

>>21036579
No. The St. Teresas produce the best writing.

[Anonymous No.21036612]

>>21036586
Sapho
George Sand
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Virginia Woolf

Have sex.

[Anonymous No.21036625]

>>21036586
Simone Weil
Cristina Campo
Anna Maria Ortese
Unica Zürn
Christine Brooke-Rose

[Anonymous No.21036634]

My most recent book by a woman. It was a decent read, and actually gave me an opening to look into Old English poetry. IMO, the most useful sections were the recommended resources after each excerpt where she would list recommended translations. Notably, she never mentioned Emily Wilson among her Odyssey translation recs.

[Anonymous No.21036636]

>>21036586
>>21036566
Flannery O'Connor
Hannah Arendt
George Eliot
Virginia Wolfe
Fleur Jaeggy
Agota Kristof
the pride and prejudice lady

[Anonymous No.21036638]

>>21036612
no
>>21036625
no

[Anonymous No.21036640]

>>21036636
>George Eliot
Keep forgetting about this one kek

[Anonymous No.21036678]

>>21036537
I don't know, the article was written by a woman so I didn't read it.

[Anonymous No.21036687]

>>21036537
No, it’s a laughable cope.
That doesn’t mean there are zero women worth reading. But that it’d have any bearing on being well read is ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.21036695]

>>21036578
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Mary Shelley
George Elliot
Nadine Gordimer
Ruth Prader Jhabvala
Carson McCullers (even though McCullersfag is annoying)
Flannery O'Connor
Louise Gluck
Joan Didion
Eve Babitz

[Anonymous No.21036702]

>>21036695
(sorry anon, meant to reply to >>21036586 )

[Anonymous No.21036703]

>>21036537
Bait thread

[Anonymous No.21036716]

>>21036612
Sorry incel, but your fantasies are false. If anything having sex and being married make you more misogynistic

[Anonymous No.21036739]

>>21036695
>Carson McCullers (even though McCullersfag is annoying)
I'm reformed now, ok!

[Anonymous No.21036741]

>>21036739
I'm glad to hear it, anon.

[Anonymous No.21036749]

>>21036537
I have only read Ayn rand and Astrid Lindgren.

[Anonymous No.21036750]

>>21036716
This is very true, I only started hating women after having sex and relationships with them

[Anonymous No.21036755]

Incel thread. You can’t consider yourself well read if you ignore 50% of the population

[Anonymous No.21036803]

>>21036755
Okay, then I'll read Ayn Rand if that'll make you happy.

[Anonymous No.21036813]

No, it's not true.

[Anonymous No.21036821]

>>21036537
We've all read Bronte. I've read Plath, Mitchell, Rand and I'm sure I had others.

[Anonymous No.21036825]

>>21036803
based, read We The Living. it's her first novel before she got addicted to benzedrine and started writing dogshit political screeds so it's a younger, kinder ayn rand (but the autism is still fucking POWERFUL)

[Anonymous No.21036842]

>>21036547
cringe
>>21036550
based

[Anonymous No.21036859]

>>21036537
They write excellent children's books. And I'd recommend Pride and Prejudice for an in depth experience of the female psyche.

[Anonymous No.21036870]

>>21036537
>Is this true
Are you honestly this stupid?

[Anonymous No.21036896]

>>21036870
I just hate women is all

[Anonymous No.21037048]

My list:
Sappho
Virginia Woolf
Christa Wolf
Tasma
The Bronte sisters
Else Lasker-Schüler
Kathy Acker
Marie de France

[Anonymous No.21037072]

>>21037048
I reject them all.

[Anonymous No.21037084]

>>21037048
That's a man

[Anonymous No.21037090]

Don't understand the constant, incessant perpetuation of dichotomy. Just shut the fuck up about identity and read what interests you.
Oh, has a woman never written anything that interested you? That's a shame - who cares?

[Anonymous No.21037096]

For me, its
Alice Oswald
Toni Morrison
Emily Dickinson
Ottessa Moshfegh
Rachel Cusk

[Anonymous No.21037115]

The only woman I will ever read is Sappho, and she was a dyke.

[Anonymous No.21037121]

>Read women authors, chud!
>Okay, I will read Ayn Rand, Savitri Devi, Camille Paglia, Teresa of Ávila, Christina Ebner, Matilda of Magdeburg [...]
>NOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!!!!

[Anonymous No.21037123]

>>21036537
In Germany there is a big book store called Hugendubel. I went there today and took their free magazine, there are book recommendations and interviews with authors. Literally on every recommendations page 8-9/10 authors were female. On some pages every single one.

The section were Hugendubel employees recommend books consisted of 90% female employees.
What the fuck is happening? Are there really that more female authors that they can mainly promote them? I always thought there are way more male authors. Was surprised that so many women write books...Idk, it seems like a male activity.

[Anonymous No.21037129]

>not reading makes me more well read
/lit/ moment

[Anonymous No.21037130]

>>21037121
>Matilda of Magdeburg
kek
I tried to read her in Middle High German about a decade ago but couldn't get through it.

[Anonymous No.21037134]

>>21037123
It's a worldwide thing. This is my OP post from some weeks ago:

Holy fuck, I thought this was just a meme in the US but I'm noticing that the writers who are getting exported, translated and praised from my region (Hispanic America) are also women. Examples: The Argentine woman who wrote Tender is the Flesh, that book was meme'd to success by American women from twitter once the translation was a released, or the Mexican woman who wrote Hurricane Season, that novel was shortlisted for the international booker prize.

What are the main themes? Well, veganism for the first, feminism/anti-machismo for the second. Themes that the modern leftist/liberal/"progressive" woman would love. Back in the day you would hear about Hispanic writers making it in other countries after struggle and effort (Borges was translated until he was in his fucking 60s!) and now these women just become successful thanks to identity politics.

No fucking wonder those Spaniards published a book under a female pseudonym and found success (which made many women angry after realizing the truth, of course):
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/16/female-spanish-thriller-writer-carmen-mola-revealed-to-be-three-men

Or how in Italy, Elena Ferrante is actually a man

[Anonymous No.21037137]

>>21037129
Not what anyone in this thread is saying. Sorry that the writing ITT is too difficult for your female peanutbrain to process, it must be very hard belonging to the stupider sex.

[Anonymous No.21037139]

>>21037130
Hildegard of Bingen is a better female mystic.

[Anonymous No.21037174]

>simone de beauvoir
big boss lady of old school feminist shitposting, existentialism, absurdism, and the discourse around faggotry

>hanna arendt
kind of a hack but her efficacy is undeniable and eichmann in jerusalem created so much seethe in israel it was worth it

>elfried jelenik
the piano teacher is sometimes more grim than the darkest incel diary and the protag is a 30+ year old femcel. she basically won the nobel prize because of this btw, back when the prize was only 95% meme instead of 100% meme

>murasaki shikibu
nip noblewoman who wrote the tale of genji, considered one of the first novels of all time. nuff said

>honorable mention:
linda la scola for her efforts in dabbing on the catholic church by cowriting quite a compelling exposé with daniel dennett

these are the ones litcels should instead of flannery o'connor. and of course there are many good textbooks written by women but whatever that's not what this thread is about. not saying the above ladies are geniuses, but it's all kino if you're curious

[Anonymous No.21037178]

>>21037139
>better
Doesn't matter since they are different and lived 100 years apart. I'll read both eventually.

[Anonymous No.21037186]

>>21036586
Yourcenar
Eliot
Mitchell
Nin
Lispector
Shelley
Woolf
Jackson
Munro

Off the top of my head

[Anonymous No.21037188]

>>21036537
Just read /lit/‘s top 100 books, and also St. John’s College Great Books curriculum, and then a healthy injection of westerns/fantasy/sci-fi/thriller pulp (McCarthy, Tolkien, Crichton, Koontz), and you’d be the most well-read person in your entire city or state.

[Anonymous No.21037201]

>>21037178
I don't care.

[Anonymous No.21037205]

>>21037174
>simone de beaver
>instead of flannery o'connor
you're retarded

[Anonymous No.21037209]

>>21037134
>Beatriz Gimeno, a feminist, writer, activist – and former head of one of Spain’s national equality bodies, the Women’s Institute – attacked the men for creating a female persona in their publicity for Carmen Mola books, over several years.
>“Quite apart from using a female pseudonym, these guys have spent years doing interviews. It’s not just the name – it’s the fake profile that they’ve used to take in readers and journalists. They are scammers,” she said on Twitter.
lol

[Anonymous No.21037210]

>>21037205
and you're a chud so i guess we're both fucked

[Anonymous No.21037224]

My favorites:
>George Eliot
>Amparo Dávila
>Emily Dickinson
>Tove Jansson
>Sigrid Undset

[Anonymous No.21037228]

>>21037201
It's alright. I still love you, anon. Take care.

[Anonymous No.21037236]

>>21037224
How is Undset’s KL? I’ve always had my eye on it but something else always wins out to read

[Anonymous No.21037238]

>>21036537
No. Women are dumb.

[Anonymous No.21037239]

>>21036749
Based

[Anonymous No.21037256]

>>21036586
Eliot
Morrison
Allende
O'Connor
Plath
Oates
Munro
Christie
Woolf
KYS DUMB FAGGOT. READ MORE

[Anonymous No.21037269]

>>21037256
>>21037186
lmao T. S. Eliot was a MAN

[Anonymous No.21037273]

>>21037236
>How is Undset’s KL?
It's excellent. Her Nobel Prize was well deserved. Comfy medieval fiction.

[Anonymous No.21037276]

>>21037256
>Eliot
Great
>Morrison
diversity hire
>Allende
meme bestseller
>O'Connor
Good
>Plath
Overrated
>Oates
Mediocre
>Munro
Great
>Christie
literally who
>Woolf
Great

[Anonymous No.21037287]

>>21037276
>literally who
Agatha, dipship

[Anonymous No.21037292]

>>21036537
You should get into the habit of completely ignoring absolutely everything that ever was is or will be published in the fucking Guardian.

[Anonymous No.21037298]

>>21037287
Ah, it didn't cross my mind. She's good. Her peaks are higher than Doyle's peaks.

[Anonymous No.21037305]

I read the Guardian because, for me, it's a kind of annoyance vaccine that helps me build a tolerance against this kind of inane, womanish degeneracy. That way, when I come upon it in the real world, I'll already have prepared words to put the woman in her place rather than just stand stupefied in awe of this kind of idiocy. And yes, I have sex.

[Anonymous No.21037382]

>>21036537
Savitri Devi is good

[Anonymous No.21037409]

I read 2 books by women this year (the belljar and little life)
yet I'm still an incel
pls gib pussy now

[Anonymous No.21037469]

>>21036537
No. She may have meant “books written by women” but instead suggested that women themselves are non trivial texts instead of incomprehensible Rothkoesque vomits.

1) women aren’t ordered language systems except in the trivial lacanian sense of how to lever your cock into their daddy issues: this reading is so trivial that it does not contribute to being well read
2) Jane Austen is the lower gentry distrack fucking mistress dropping bombs like Hiroshima on the modern construction of the interior. Anyone who avoids reading canon authors because they’re women like Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Shakespeare or the Synoptics is missing out.

[Anonymous No.21037479]

>>21037469
>No. She may have meant “books written by women” but instead suggested that women themselves are non trivial texts

[Anonymous No.21037481]

It is a statistical truth that people tend to read books written by people of their own sex. It is true for men and women. It will vary by person and their interests of course, but the statistical truth remains. That stupid bitch in the OP probably reads 90% women authors, just like all the agents and publishers do these days, especially as they are all raging leftists.

That said, no, it is not really true. Women as authors have really only gained prominence in the last hundred years or so. For the last few decades they have absolutely dominated authorship and readership. But, nonetheless, for most of history books were written by men. So, most of what is worth reading, the historical canon, is by men. You could avoid women entirely if you wanted to. You would certainly be missing out on a wealth of literature, but we all make our choices in what we read, and restricting yourself to the male works written before the 20th century wouldn't stop you being from well read.

[Anonymous No.21037497]

>>21037481
>restricting yourself to the male works written before the 20th century wouldn't stop you being from well read.
Yes it would. Only on this board would you get away with le rong generation shit like this

[Anonymous No.21037507]

>>21037479
Fuck off pomo scum. Women are trivial texts.

[Anonymous No.21037513]

>>21037269
you're trolling right? george elliot is who they are talking about idiot

[Anonymous No.21037514]

>>21036636
>>21036612
No one cares about your british romance lesbian
stories.

[Anonymous No.21037527]

>>21037507
meds

[Anonymous No.21037537]

>>21037507
why do some of you think post modernity is some sort of political alignment someone can have. it is a societal condition, not something you can choose to be.

[Anonymous No.21037540]

>>21037537
trolled softly

[Anonymous No.21037546]

>>21036537
Anna Comnena is a must-read, very malebrained.

[Anonymous No.21037554]

>>21036550
And yet, I am on this board. What're you gonna do about it?

[Anonymous No.21037562]

>>21037554

[Anonymous No.21037566]

>>21037513
>george elliot
so another dude? George is a dude's name lmao

[Anonymous No.21037571]

>>21037566
pseudonym for mary ann evans.
>>21037540
;;?;;

[Anonymous No.21037630]

>>21037537
It's an aesthetic choice, like Romanticism or Catholicism

[Anonymous No.21037632]

Post the original

[Anonymous No.21037659]

Yeah it's true but you have to read the right women, just like you have to read the right men. If you're bragging about not reading women and picking up Stephen King or Tom Clancy, you're still a fucking pleb. Being well read is about class, not gender.

[Anonymous No.21037701]

>>21036755
Yes you can

>>21036842
Dilate

[Anonymous No.21037725]

>>21037701
Look out guys, we got a 15 year old brainlet with poor comebacks in the thread

[Anonymous No.21037729]

>>21036537

[Anonymous No.21037732]

>>21037659
I have read more than 100 books this year already and DNF'd the few female authors who made it on my reading list.

The fact of the matter is that female authors tend to produce more pulp, erotica, and easy reading, and less distinguished works than male authors. Most published female authors are certainly better than me but on the whole I am afraid it is biological and has nothing to do with culture or even discrimination.

[Anonymous No.21037743]

>>21037632
top kek

[Anonymous No.21037747]

>>21037537
>lowercase post
Retard detected

[Anonymous No.21037782]

>>21036755
I consider myself well read and I ignore women authors. And there isn’t a fucking thing you can do about it

[Anonymous No.21037789]

Being "well read" today apparently means you agree that a man chopping his dick off makes him a woman, so I'll pass.

[Anonymous No.21037791]

>>21036755
I ignore 99% of the population. The untalented midwit part, which coincidentally also includes all women.

[Anonymous No.21037896]

>>21036578
Not reading females born after 1990 is just good sense

[Anonymous No.21037937]

>>21036569
You literally list one good writer and then a bunch of nuns, half of which I’ve never even heard of.

[Anonymous No.21037939]

>>21036547
How do you know none of it interests you if you haven't read any of it?

[Anonymous No.21037947]

>>21036556
It's hysterical watching white men scream about how they're being persecuted because they're now ever so slightly less privileged. I guess it's true, equality feels like persecution when you're used to superiority.

[Anonymous No.21037961]

>>21037469
What?

[Anonymous No.21037978]

women have written nothing worthwhile change my mind

[Anonymous No.21037997]

>>21037937
All of those nuns have published writings tbf.

[Anonymous No.21038023]

>>21037896
Why would even read men born after 1990?

[Anonymous No.21038308]

>>21037939
Where did he say he never read it midwit

[Anonymous No.21038381]

>>21036537
I've read EM Forster. Get off my case.

[Anonymous No.21038387]

>>21037497
Enormous swathes of poets, playwrights, authors, and philosophers lived and died before 1900. Something like 85-90% of worthwhile material is written by men. There is more than enough in that timeframe for you to spend an entire lifetime reading and still not run out of decent content - hell, you could limit it further and (foolishly) not read anything published before 1000 either and also exclude non-Western works and still not come close. Entire genres lived and died in that period.

[Anonymous No.21038534]

>>21036537
Who cares? The point of reading isn't to be "well read"

[Anonymous No.21038547]

>>21038534
It is.

[Anonymous No.21038551]

>>21036569
I love Flannery O’Connor and St Faustina! I’ll look into those other writers right away! (I’ve been meaning to read St Therese of Lisieux for a while now anyway)

[Anonymous No.21038571]

>>21038547
pseud moment

[Anonymous No.21038582]

>>21038023
How old is K.D. Walter?

[Anonymous No.21038730]

>>21037123
are you in Bavaria? I love the Hugendubel on Marienplatz

[Anonymous No.21038846]

>>21036537
Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector, Yumiko Kurahashi, Lady Dilke, Edna W. Underwood, Marguerite Young, Leonora Carrington, Djuna Barnes, Izumi Suzuki, Unica Zurn, A.S. Byatt, Yoko Ogawa, Gabrielle Wittkop, Jane de La Vaudère, Kōno Taeko, Tatyana Tolstaya

[Anonymous No.21038857]

>>21038308
>Where did he say he never read it midwit
Well...
>Nothing that was ever conjured by a female mind interests me in the least
If nothing EVER created by a woman interested that guy, then it follows that he wasn't interested enough in any book from a female author to want to read it
We all know that post was facetious, though

[Anonymous No.21038874]

>>21036636
>Anon asks for recommendations
>Give a list of people instead of books they wrote
This is just celebrity worship for people who own books to look smart

[Anonymous No.21038901]

>>21036537
No. There are good female writers but they either get buried by endless wave of le YA authors, le "avant-garde" feminist poetry or for not being progressive enough during the current times.

[Anonymous No.21038933]

>>21037287
Where do I even find a copy of this book with the real title? I think it be a laugh to buy it as a birthday present for my friend

[Anonymous No.21038941]

>>21038933
I have it tattooed on my chest if you want me to just show up at your friend's birthday party

[Anonymous No.21038950]

>>21038941
Like the whole book tattooed? That's pretty impressive.
Sure you can tag along (assuming you are a cute girl)

[Anonymous No.21038956]

>>21036537
actually, the less female writers you waste time on, the better read you are.

For example, I'm not going to read Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's vapid article and instead finish Don Quixote, and I will be better read for it.

[Anonymous No.21039650]

>>21037789
sorry sweaty, but you’ll never pass

[Anonymous No.21039657]

>>21036537
I’ve read Robin Hobb books when I was a kid (no internet so I thought she was a man) and the main character was always wimpy as hell and overthought absolutely everything. Only years later I understood that this was made by a woman, they simply can’t write men.

>>21037123
Edition is 90% women

[Anonymous No.21039666]

>>21038857
Are you braindead. He read women and didn't find them interesting. Came to the conclusion to not bother.

[Anonymous No.21039668]

>>21037469
This post was written by a bot

[Anonymous No.21039672]

>>21037947
>pointing out reality that everyone tries to deny is wrong
You deny reality in this very post. I will be pretending to be non-white and female, there's nothing you can do about you seething racist and sexist, thank you.

[Anonymous No.21039717]

>>21038387
Most is irrelevant shit, hopelessly dated. Its of historical and academic interest only.
Anyone who only reads Penguin/Oxford/whatever classics is a pleb with no taste or intellect of their own

[Anonymous No.21039747]

>>21036537
That's very transphobic of her.

[Anonymous No.21039781]

>>21039717
What current day books would you say have literary and intellectual value that comes even close to, let alone surpasses the classics?

[Anonymous No.21039939]

>>21036537
Yes. Savitri Devi was good.

[Anonymous No.21039951]

>>21039747
lol

[Anonymous No.21039967]

Cuteness correlates with women's ability to write very strongly. Woolf and Barnes, the masculine strong women are awful writers, extremely boring. For people who hate reading and read to impress. qt3.14 nice girls like Jane Austen or Emily Dickinson though? I am very impressed by their sincerity and technical skill.

[Anonymous No.21041235]

>>21036750
Same lol

When I had limited interaction with them as a teen they retained their idealized state in my head, but the more I've known them the more accurate my picture of them has become, and they are grotesquely inferior to men in a moral and spiritual sense. The idea that they have souls is tenuous.

[Anonymous No.21041242]

>>21037048
Why is the man in this image like a foot taller than the woman? When trying to make le beautiful art they still make sure their vagigi tingles?

[Anonymous No.21041254]

>>21039781
the fault in r stars
milk n honey
the notebook

[Anonymous No.21041327]

>>21036755
50% or writers aren't women

[Anonymous No.21041345]

>>21041242
i swear man short dudes seethe at EVERYTHING

[Anonymous No.21041649]

I hate women so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.21041709]

>>21039781
Let me answer your question with another question. Which so called classics have literary and intellectual value that comes even close to, let alone surpasses the best contemporary writing?

[Anonymous No.21041752]

>>21037732
>female authors tend to produce more pulp, erotica, and easy reading, and less distinguished works than male
You could have said nothing to me instead of telling me you're an ignorant pleb. I'm just making that clear because you wouldn't work it out for yourself.

[Anonymous No.21041767]

>>21037134
>>21037209
Why would women care if men use female pseudonyms when women have done it all through history? Obviously the reasoning and context is different, but what's this shit about them being 'scammers'?

[Anonymous No.21041915]

>>21036640
George is a male name you retard

[Anonymous No.21042011]

[Anonymous No.21042032]

>>21042011
Lmao

[Anonymous No.21042108]

>>21041709
uh, pretty much all of them? Don Quixote, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenena, Middlemarch, Les Miserables, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, Ulysses, in search of lost time, Homer's epics, Dante... seriously just go down a generic top 50 best books of all time list. They are all objectively vastly superior to any modern work by any contemporary writer. With the exception of maybe Cormack McCarthy. But by all means, feel free to prove me wrong and name some contemporary writers who have written any work that is equally important and valuable than any of the classics.

[Anonymous No.21042267]

>>21041235
>and they are grotesquely inferior to men in a moral and spiritual sense.
Any examples and anecdotes that made you think that?

[Anonymous No.21042401]

What does /lit/ think about Olga Tokarczuk?

[Anonymous No.21043325]

>>21039672
Is there any CONCEIVABLE evidence that could convince you white men are not somehow oppressed, even hypothetically?

[Anonymous No.21043332]

>>21041242
What makes you think it's because it turns them on and not just for aesthetic reasons? Just about anything turns someone or other on, after all.

[Anonymous No.21043497]

>customers bragging in bookshops about avoiding female writers
I'm flattered she wrote an article about me

[Anonymous No.21043513]

>>21037947
>It's hysterical watching white men scream about how they're being persecuted because they're now ever so slightly less privileged. I guess it's true, equality feels like persecution when you're used to superiority.

[Anonymous No.21043519]

>>21043513
Not an argument.

[Anonymous No.21043549]

>>21036537
Completely retarded assertion based on MUH FEELINGS.
Almost no women wrote classic novels with the exception of the Brontes and Jane Austen.
>You have to read more women because my religion of Neo-Marxist Intersectionalism says diversity is morally righteous!
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.21043560]

>>21037947
You can’t gaslight people when they can see reality right in front of them, moron. Gaslighting only works with things that happened in the past where the only record of the thing you’re saying never happened is in the person’s mind

[Anonymous No.21043565]

>>21043560
Do you have any evidence for the claim you're making? There should be some if it's obvious, right?

[Anonymous No.21043569]

>>21043565
Maybe. What kind of evidence you want?

[Anonymous No.21043570]

>>21043549
How about 'men and women are different and you'll get an incomplete picture of human nature if you only read books by men'?

[Anonymous No.21043590]

>>21043569
I don't know, any sort of actual empirical evidence or statistics from a reliable source? Preferably replicated.

[Anonymous No.21043593]

>>21043570
There's more variety between individual men than there is between men and women as demographic groups.

[Anonymous No.21043602]

>>21043593
You're not wrong, but there are statistical tendencies nonetheless, and I think there are regions of mindspace occupied primarily by men or by women, at least along certain dimensions.

[Anonymous No.21043604]

>>21043593
Yet there are differences between them, and they lead to differences in their work.
If you've ignored books created by the group of humans that includes the majority, can you really say that you have a wide knowledge?

[Anonymous No.21043616]

>>21038901
Women have failed good female writers at least in the current era.
Also Geek Love by Kathrine Dunn was pretty.

[Anonymous No.21043635]

>>21043604
Can anybody? This is transparently less a consideration of my reading habits than it is targeted rhetoric to shame white men for not reading women and non-whites. The thing is, it's the least of what's been said in that vein. I can accept not being well read. I'm more interested in just reading.

[Anonymous No.21043645]

>>21043635
Not him, but I will bite the bullet and say that if you only read women your view to the world is just as blinkered and parochial as if you only read men. It's not specifically about telling people to read women, it just happens there are more people who refuse to read women than men, at least around here.

[Anonymous No.21043656]

>>21043635
So what you're saying is that you can't be "well read" without reading women.
I accept your concession, and suggest you read some books written by women.

[Anonymous No.21043670]

>>21043645
I want my world view to be blinkered and parochial. I like and trust myself. Then other people can be blinkered and parochial in a different, gayer way, and the world will be more richly textured because of it.

[Anonymous No.21043681]

>>21043670
How can you make an informed judgement about whether your blinkered, parochial worldview is better than a more informed one without informing yourself?

[Anonymous No.21043708]

>>21043681
I didn't make a value judgement, so I won't answer your question under those terms. You should answer it yourself, because you're the one who's concerned about such matters.
The more interesting question to me is why you're so invested in the world view of someone you think is backwards. I don't get the feeling you're genuinely concerned about my intellectual development, so there's some other underlying motivation to this effort to make people read authors they don't give a fuck about.

[Anonymous No.21043709]

>>21043519
>Not an argument.
Neither is that. Or what I quoted. Be honest, do you think "Not an argument" is some magical insta-win tactic?

[Anonymous No.21043719]

>>21043708
I mean better in the sense of whether you'd be happier or more content with it. Better for you.

[Anonymous No.21044587]

>>21038730
If you ever see some /fit/ autist browsing the classic section for an hour there, that's probably me.

[Anonymous No.21044593]

>>21037123
>Hugendubel
Not a single book of value can be found in that store. I pity every fellow German that doesn’t live in close proximity to Dussman

[Anonymous No.21044638]

>>21036537
Sure. it's true. Not because you should "read books written by women" but because good books have been written by some female authors. I'm also not sure if there has ever been a "customer" in a bookshop that readily "bragged about avoiding female writers".

[Anonymous No.21045393]

>>21036612
And how long did it take you come up with this meager list? How many internet searched did you make.

Now name 50 good male authors. I'll be it will take you a lot longer to type them out than to think of them.

[Anonymous No.21045401]

>>21036716
based

[Anonymous No.21045433]

>>21036537
I don't even know the names of any authors in my shelf besides Lovecraft, Asimov, and Gina L. Barnes. I just pick books based on the subject and read them

[Anonymous No.21045479]

>>21038874
he asked for five good female authors

[Najwathan !!z3Lf/vIW4kd No.21045559]

>>21036578
>>hurr durr I don't read female writers
>That's just incel retardation.

You could look at it this way: if you read for the content of the writing, then what does it matter that the author has a vagina or a dick or what gender they identify as?

[Anonymous No.21045624]

>>21036578
This is exactly it. Women historically had way less rights and were discouraged from writing for a long time. Over time these numbers will balance out more but expecting ~50 years to balance out 2000+ years of the canon being male dominated... it's just unreasonable. Most of the books women write suck because most of the books people write suck. As you said, it's not even an indo l incel "women suck" thing, it's just a numbers game.

[Anonymous No.21046740]

>>21043519
nobody has to argue with you, you dickless faggot.

[Anonymous No.21047156]

>>21036537
I love women, i will just read all of them (not before reading all men)

[Anonymous No.21047306]

>>21037947
Try to form your own opinions about things instead of repeating what you've heard elsewhere

[Anonymous No.21047351]

>>21036537
A male reader needs a female writer like a bicycle needs a fish.

[Anonymous No.21047419]

>>21036695
>Austen
Overrated in the extreme
>Bronte
Wuthering Heights is genuinely awful and cringe. Jane Eyre is good, but not good enough for me to remember which sister wrote what.
>Shelley
Frankenstein is good. Too bad it was written by her husband.
>George Elliot
Again, good but unexceptional.
>The rest
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.21047420]

>>21037121
bros why did Evola not marry Savitri Devi
they were made for one another

[Anonymous No.21047431]

>>21037123
>>21037134
It's due to a phenomenon called "women are wonderful". It's a universal societal bias to favor women. It's the root for "women and children first" in cases of emergency, meaning the men can die as long as women are saved. As women move more into spheres of work, this same principle applies and dominates over quality. Meaning a man's work of quality will be overruled by the societal need to ensure women are elevated, even if they lack all merit. It genuinely signals the imminent downfall of a civilization.

[Anonymous No.21047505]

>>21047420
He preferred Maria de Naglowska and Sibilla Aleramo

[Anonymous No.21048237]

>>21044587
I would always go upstairs and order a Fritz Kola and sit and read. Also did some reading at the Gasteig library on Rosenheimer Platz. Gute Errinerungen aus Muenchen.

[Anonymous No.21048245]

>>21044593
I like the big English language bookstore in Berlin near Unter den Linden. Forget the name though

[Anonymous No.21048403]

>>21043590
Lots of job listings openly state that they're preferentially hiring non-whites, and there's a massive multiprong push to get more women into tech fields

[Anonymous No.21049199]

>>21047505
That’s cool.

[Anonymous No.21049367]

>>21036537
who cares? read what you like and forget about labels like "well read." you are bigger than what media tells you to be anon.

[Anonymous No.21049516]

>>21036586
>Shelley
>Austen
>that bitch who wrote Middlemarch
>Anaïs Nin
>Sapphos

There’s definitely some juicy irony in that most of the best literature written by women was made in the pre-feminism era