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la_vie_noire) wrote2011-02-26 03:13 am
la_vie_noire) wrote2011-02-26 03:13 am
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Natsuo Kirino, Out
Yes. I'm also pissed because I looked for this book for an eternity; I bought it here, in Spanish; and it was EXPENSIVE.
What the shit. No seriously, what the shit.
I mean, sure, great social critique and insight into Japanese working class and economical issues. But seriously, I can't remember the last time a book made me feel to icky.
What the shit? So, you have this woman who is smart, cold, has agency, but that immediately makes her better than any other woman character in the book who isn't like her; even if it's shown they all are oppressed women. And The Woman is specially superior to those who are fat and ugly. And also she is wanted by every man, specially by the... sadist rapist who, by the book's standards, is more sympathetic than the fat and frivolous co-worker. Actually, the book makes the sadist, icky killer the pseudo "love interest." For a book that is supposed to be "feminist," it's something that the woman who killed her abusive, unfaithful husband in a rage attack for his abusive behavior is regarded in a worse way than the man who killed and tortured a prostitute for pleasure. Just because he "sees himself as corrupted." Right.
Ugh. Ugh. Fuck you, book. I thought you were better than that.
Also, I'm kinda tired of reading stupid shit on facebook. God, I can't make myself away from it due to having a lot of my real life there, but how much I wish it every time politic issues are mentioned. Stupid, stupid privileged assholes.
What the shit. No seriously, what the shit.
I mean, sure, great social critique and insight into Japanese working class and economical issues. But seriously, I can't remember the last time a book made me feel to icky.
What the shit? So, you have this woman who is smart, cold, has agency, but that immediately makes her better than any other woman character in the book who isn't like her; even if it's shown they all are oppressed women. And The Woman is specially superior to those who are fat and ugly. And also she is wanted by every man, specially by the... sadist rapist who, by the book's standards, is more sympathetic than the fat and frivolous co-worker. Actually, the book makes the sadist, icky killer the pseudo "love interest." For a book that is supposed to be "feminist," it's something that the woman who killed her abusive, unfaithful husband in a rage attack for his abusive behavior is regarded in a worse way than the man who killed and tortured a prostitute for pleasure. Just because he "sees himself as corrupted." Right.
Ugh. Ugh. Fuck you, book. I thought you were better than that.
Also, I'm kinda tired of reading stupid shit on facebook. God, I can't make myself away from it due to having a lot of my real life there, but how much I wish it every time politic issues are mentioned. Stupid, stupid privileged assholes.
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