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As a man, what books could I read to increase my understanding of what it is to be a woman and what the female mind thinks about?

>> No.6273840
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>> No.6273841

>>6273835
just spend all day on tumblr

>> No.6273848

PUA GTFO back to /r/redpill, this is not the place for you, scum

>> No.6273849

>>6273835
I dunno I guess read Second Sex or Bell Jar

>>6273840
hardest I've laughed all day thanks m8

>> No.6273850
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This'll help you understand what modern women fear, even if they don't acknowledge that fear.

>> No.6273856

Interact with women, thats worth more than any book.

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no need to read books (they don't anyway)

females enjoy
>eating food
>lowbrow entertainment
>window shopping
>long showers
>sleeping
>children's things

basically, they are neets

>> No.6273862

ALL WOMEN ARE UNIQUE SNOWFLAKES YOU CANNOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WOMEN IN GENERAL STOP TIPPING THAT FEDORA I'M BEING SO TRIGGERED RIGHT NOW

>> No.6273868

>>6273835
Any book written by a woman. That's what that woman was thinking about.

Also, talk to girls.

>> No.6273899

>>6273835
all modern women are whores
>captcha : sluts

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A microcosmic story set in 1940's Japan that was scarily presentient of modern day America's macrocosm. Enjoy.

>> No.6273912

Pretty much anything by Virginia Woolf

>> No.6273959

>>6273912

I doubt that many women are as brilliant as Woolf.

>> No.6273961

>>6273850
>>6273856
>>6273868
Best answers. Just think to yourself, what would you do different if suddenly your hormones fucked with you monthly and you had a hole between your legs.

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>>6273909
have a download for an english translation?

all i could find was german + a scribd page, but i have no account there

>> No.6274008

>>6273835
B O V A R Y
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>> No.6274014
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guys, i'm tired of reading stuff on blogs and 4chan about feminism and critiques on feminism.

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>>6274014

oops that wasn't my entire post

What books about sexual dynamics would recommend, preferably something relatively old first

>> No.6274021

>>6274014

The Good and The Beautiful

>> No.6274029

Andrea Dworkin's "Pornography"

>> No.6274045

For you french readers out there, Nelly Arcan's Putain (Whore)

>> No.6274055

Pride and Prejudice could be your thing, that shit is femenine as fuck. I hated it.

>> No.6274068

Otto Weininger: Sex and Character.

Schopenhauer: On Women

Elliot Rodger: My Twisted World

>> No.6274389

>>6273986
I don't m8. But do acquire yourself a copy. If you happen to be a late teen or early 20's male you will praise this anon's name for the rec. Do it.

>> No.6274405

No one recommended Second Sex by Beauvoir yet? The book is great.

>> No.6274422

>>6274389
OP here. I'm 53.

>> No.6274430

>>6274405
isn't it bad because it only focuses on spoiled upper middle class white hipsters?

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>>6273835

>> No.6274457

>>6274444
i remember that one
funny

>> No.6274462

>>6274444
Quite literally this. Trips don't lie. Especially pertinent to today's society.

>> No.6274497

>>6273850
the government is going to control their lives? seems to me mostly women calling for more and more regulation, to the point you have to verbally ask to have sex

>> No.6274499

>>6274405
>>6273849

>> No.6274510

>>6274497
zing!

>> No.6274540

>>6274497
anti rape consent laws are basically that

>> No.6274556

>>6273899
>>6273862
>>6273861

omg edgiest things ever

>> No.6274983

Chateau Heartiste

not even joking

>> No.6275052

From a somewhat a feminist point of view, "Psychoanalysis And Feminism A Radical Reassessment Of Freudian Psychoanalysis" is worthwhile. It doesn't just shit on Freud, it has a rather positive view on him.

The Second Sex gives an extensive existential exploration of female psychology. There's much to criticize, but there's no other work that does that afaik

The Feminine Mystique is of course important for housewife psychology.

From an anti-feminist pov, there's Montherlant, D.H. Lawrence, and to some extent Nietzsche (although he explicitly qualifies his opinions on women as being simply his experience without further substantiation).

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>>6274405
>Judith Butler says that Beauvoir's formulation that "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" distinguishes the terms "sex" and "gender"
>distinguishes the terms "sex" and "gender"

dropped so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me

>> No.6275069

>>6275060
Gender is a whole lot broader than sex, gender is a cultural and linguistic identity that can be attributed to sexless objects.

>> No.6275083

>>6274430
Not anymore than other philosophy does, it certainly explores women in the lower class.

>> No.6275085

>>6275069
It's also completely useless. When 99% of people refer to someone as a "he" or a "she", they are referring to that individual's sex.

This is now going to turn into a tumblr-tier muh gender identity argument and I'm not gonna do it.