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boxofdelights) wrote2019-08-21 08:55 pm
boxofdelights) wrote2019-08-21 08:55 pm
reading wednesday
• What are you reading?
Radium Girls, by Kate Moore, for Tawanda book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Duplicate Keys, by Jane Smiley. This book presents itself as a mystery or thriller, and it does have some of the trappings of those genres, but it is mostly about friendship: how much you can love someone, and how little you can understand them.
"[C}ouldn't this last for years, in a way that marriage could never last, without effort, without swings in desire, or mistakes in translation, or the balancing of needs that marriages always demanded? People stayed home for passion and went out for companionship, when actually the reverse would work much better."
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, for SF book group.
• What are you watching?
Madeline's Madeline,
Sensitivity Training,
The Favorite,
and two episodes of Strange Empire, which were very rapey. I wanted a Western that paid attention to women, but not that kind of attention. I acknowledge that the women keep getting rescued from sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sex slavery by other women, and that's nice? but still no thank you.
I remember when my cousin's husband asked if I was watching Game of Thrones, and no, I regret not watching dragons but I heard it was very rapey,
and he said but realism,
and I said if that's realism where are the rotting teeth,
and he said "No one wants to see that,"
and I put my chin on my finger and raised my eyebrows and said yes, exactly.
He acknowledged my point but I would bet a lot of money that he still believes that not wanting to look at rotting teeth, or armpit hair, or or or is just normal human response, but not wanting to look at rape is feminine oversensitivity.
Radium Girls, by Kate Moore, for Tawanda book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Duplicate Keys, by Jane Smiley. This book presents itself as a mystery or thriller, and it does have some of the trappings of those genres, but it is mostly about friendship: how much you can love someone, and how little you can understand them.
"[C}ouldn't this last for years, in a way that marriage could never last, without effort, without swings in desire, or mistakes in translation, or the balancing of needs that marriages always demanded? People stayed home for passion and went out for companionship, when actually the reverse would work much better."
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, for SF book group.
• What are you watching?
Madeline's Madeline,
Sensitivity Training,
The Favorite,
and two episodes of Strange Empire, which were very rapey. I wanted a Western that paid attention to women, but not that kind of attention. I acknowledge that the women keep getting rescued from sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sex slavery by other women, and that's nice? but still no thank you.
I remember when my cousin's husband asked if I was watching Game of Thrones, and no, I regret not watching dragons but I heard it was very rapey,
and he said but realism,
and I said if that's realism where are the rotting teeth,
and he said "No one wants to see that,"
and I put my chin on my finger and raised my eyebrows and said yes, exactly.
He acknowledged my point but I would bet a lot of money that he still believes that not wanting to look at rotting teeth, or armpit hair, or or or is just normal human response, but not wanting to look at rape is feminine oversensitivity.
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and he said but realism,
and I said if that's realism where are the rotting teeth,
and he said "No one wants to see that,"
and I put my chin on my finger and raised my eyebrows and said yes, exactly.
OooOOOooooo! Well played.
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Also, the TV series had more rape than the books, which were based after all on history. So yeah no.
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Oooo!