Need a hot feminist take need a hot feminist take. Oh I know
“A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses”
I was like, “twitter has style rules?”
I totally get the criticism that the current canon is too white, male, and heteronormative, it objectively is, and opening up the canon to new voices is a good thing. This person doesn’t even seem to want to do that though. It’s just flatly dismissing difficult to read books, which is just lazy. Unsurprisingly this person writes adult romance novels, you get this garbage from a ton of twitter authors who either write very horny books or young adult fiction, and seem to aggressively refuse to read literature.
Hell, she might have a good point if she had asked, do current expansions of the canon miss important works because while they accept the easy to read novels by women, and other marginalized groups, there’s still a bias against difficult to read and experimental works by those groups.
Yep. It’s the “Bernie wearing mittens is male privilege” school of feminism, and it’s really fucking stupid.
too many weird words
Those letters where he got super horny about women farting were 🔥 tho
I want to meet one of these people IRL so I can tell them that Hemingway is the GOAT author.
Only if you do it in a single stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence with awkward splices and no pausing for breath because commas are revisionist and sentences that span six pages are the only way to convey the depths of your alcoholic stupor.
I, for one, choose to believe that the fish in The Old Man and the Sea was a metaphor for Hemingway’s liver.
