/lit/ - Literature

Don't allow yourself to be satisfied with platitudes and simplifications.

As for your first question OP,

>>>/adv/

As for your second, read some Collete. I rec. "The pure and the Impure." Great stuff. v. Lesbian.

You could try not being a fuckwit.

Whether you'll find this book anything groundbreaking depends on how familiar you are with existentialism/absurdism. They're pretty pervasive views these days, so even if you've never read this sort of thing, you'll probably feel that it affirms many things you already think.

I enjoyed it. A little dry perhaps, but I'm glad I read it if only for the Sisyphus analogy. It isn't the best work I've read that deals with these themes though; that would probably be Simone de Beauvoir's "All Men Are Mortal." And yeah, yeah, I know, female authors. misogyny, et cet.

>>2104288

It isn't that crazy a notion.

Feminism assumes that the ways in which women were historically repressed weren't counterbalanced by certain advantages that men are without.

If you challenge that assumption, and argue that while society barred women from certain functions it also gave them certain advantages, you can argue that feminism largely removed the oppressive elements while retaining the advantages, ergo, men are now the ones undergoing inequality.

Think about legal rights re. children. Think about the law of sexual and domestic abuse. Think about military conscription. Think about the things women can do whilst being socially acceptable that men can't. Consider that males are under-performing academically and that women outnumber men in medical degrees and law degrees. Not to mention the sexual imbalance. Also, while women might sometimes struggle with objectification, men are largely denied it.

>>2104190

Lol, enjoy your incomplete /lit/ experience.

>>2104187
>>2104181

Wow. What powerful counterarguments. It's almost like you don't have anything to back up your blubbery vaginal assertions.

>>2104194

I don't even know who that is. I've never been interested enough to really study this shit. From observation, the sort of people who can be fucked really studying 'difference' like gender and race usually have an axe to grind, or some sort of chip on their shoulder. Shit's worth a passing look, but most people would rather just get on with life and focus on intellectual concerns that are more productive.

>>2104164

Yeah. White men aren't allowed to have socio-economic concerns, no, no, those are reserved for women and ethnic minorities.

>>2104162

I read that book, and some of what she said resonated with things I've thought in the past (although I didn't like how polemic she was).

More generally; I think the notion that everything negative one could attribute to women is somehow foisted upon them by men, is patently bullshit. It grants women this gigantic victim complex - it assumes that they can't simply refrain from consumerism for instance. Women LIKE dressing up, they like buying shit, and while they don't like being 'objectified' they are very willing to use their sexual leverage as an advantage.

>2011
>Thinking women are 'oppressed'.
>Thinking are forced, or 'trained' to consume.
>Not realizing that men are now the subjugated ones.

Oh /lit/

ITT OP's just finished watching 'Waking Life.'

I was thinking about it, but the dates look like they might clash with the Global Moronic Dogmatist Convention. I feel like I'm being torn in half. I didn't know Hitch was going (I thought he must be dead by now; maybe the prayers of the faithful are working) so you might have swayed me OP. I'll have to wait until I find where Dawkins is speaking though.

It's a simple question, so I'll give you a simple answer:

No.

>>2056191

Good work bumping the thread asshole. You're the retard, because you might notice that after forcing anonymity for a year, moot reverted to tripcodes and they have been part of 4chan ever since.

Yes, yes, you will say that this is so that people can maintain identity in rare circumstances when this is important. However, as D&E points out, there is nothing in the 4chan rules or faq that is against tripfaggotry.

The problem is that anon conflates anonymous culture with 4chan. Anonymous exists over a wide number of chans and other websites. Anonymous is not limited to 4chan, nor is 4chan limited to anonymous.

Being a tripfag might be attention seeking, but it carries the disadvantage of accountability. At least it means if a user is particularly annoying you can filter them (which you can't do with consistently annoying anons).

Originally, the 4chan mod team wanted people to fill in their names with tripcodes [an optional feature on 4chan that allows users to create an ID code that remains constant throughout the board. This is looked down on by most 4chan users, who prefer that everyone be anonymous]... The overwhelming majority of 4channers used their names; people who criticized others anonymously were called cowards who didn't want responsibility for their actions." Shii who is credited with writing the software for 4chan's text boards on the early days on 4chan taken from page 145 of Epic Win.

Just saiyan.

Sure its fine to dislike tripfags, especially when they are justifying it by endless shitposts. But to make it a general principle that you must hate/disregard anyone posting with a trip is just dogmatic and you can't justify it with reference to 4chan culture.

>Could you give me some examples of good writing in the genre.

>good writing
>in the genre

Houston, we have a problem.

>>2055995

Well the shitty blog format doesn't help matters, but I was criticizing the content.

Admittedly, I am highly biased against shitty sci-fi genre fiction, but I am willing to overcome that bias if something is at least interesting.

Unfortunately, from the very first sentence, your writing is absolutely dull. Doesn't do anything to capture the reader's attention.

no.

>>2055969

>Someone's life is the totality of their experiences

I'll give you this for the sake of argument.

>What do you think shapes and forms our world view.

I think our life and, by your logic, our experiences shape our worldview. This is not the same as saying ones 'life' is synonymous with ones 'worldview.'

absolutely unreadable.

>>2055896

I strangled a child with my bear hands.

>bear hands

>>2055413

Whoever made this should be ashamed.

So let me get this right. You are feeling increasingly misanthropic and you want to read something that will make you more so, or at least agree with your feelings?

I feel misanthropic most of the time, but I prefer to use literature as a way to combat this. You read an uplifting work of art and you realize that every now and then, someone transcends the mire of humanity.

But to answer your question instead of preaching, Notes From Underground is probably on topic.

>>2054197

I enjoyed the first stanza, and the last two, but felt it sagged slightly in the middle. Post more of your work?

>>2054182

>Implying that if I was shit, that would make you any less so.

I'm not bothered man. I don't usually write poetry anyway. I write swag-rap lyrics. Writing poetry is just something I do when I want to feel anachronistic.