I find it more interesting when literature refuses to make its characters morally convenient. Give me contradiction, cowardice, hypocrisy, desire. The whole unpleasant machinery of being human
characterizing women as some separate race of life-giving goddesses is literally just dehumanization with a bow on it. and it still centers baby-making as our purpose just like patriarchy does.
has a completely different tone more light novel rather than literary and maybe that’s what I’m picking up?? but everyone seems to love it and have no issues reading it so it’s more of a me issue? i guess???
i’m reading taiwan travelogue and yall i think i’m genuinely stupid bc i’m halfway through it and it’s only descriptions of food (food i have no idea what looks or tastes like) and i find the translation somewhat clanky saw someone on reddit say the original chinese novel
and this is what people mean when we say some of you are shitty parents who don’t know how to parent bc not only is the rest of us in mood due to the screaming you embarrass your own kid for shits and giggles?!?? insane
listen i am no parent but why some of you rage baiting your kid in public?? that kid was sitting there minding their business and now you (usually dad) look like a clown and there’s a screaming kid in public that as a parent you don’t know how to control
Author Joyce Carol Oates came to the defense of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” after translator Emily Wilson wrote a viral review attacking the film:
“Rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks attacking someone with ideas that differ from hers.”
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